From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 15:30:17 BST
DMB presents us with a rather unique view of history:
> This is why I get so crazy over the attempts to
> re-introduce tradition and theism. That kind of move strikes me as one that
> can only be made by one who does not even understand what the problem is,
> let alone the solution. I mean, how many more millions have to die before
> this conflict is resolved. Do you not see how murderous the reactionaries
> have been for the last several hundred years? Do you not see that the
> Hitlers, the Stalins, the Bin Ladins and the Pat Robersons of the world are
> extremely destructive? The one thing these wildly different characters all
> have in common is an anti-intellectual, anti-Modern stance at the heart of
> it all.
Note that a couple of "murderous reactionaries" are omitted, like Mao, Pol
Pot, and Saddam Hussein. Also note that Pat Robertson, who is hardly
responsible for the murders of millions, is lumped in as morally
equivalent to the mass killers. Another questionable assertion was that
all those characters were anti-intellectual. But, several of the worst in
terms of spilling human blood were intellectually-driven Marxists.
Finally, what's actually at "the heart of it all" was the defeat of these
secular monsters by the Judeo-Christian West, although remnants of
Communism still survive in the East.
Praising the intellectual level as superior to the social level is all
well and good so long as one keeps in mind that many intellectuals are
Christians, and that SOM intellectualism "has no provision for morals," a
major theme of the MOQ and the prime cause, according to Pirsig, of social
degeneration in America.
Those like DMB who exhibit a frightening intolerance of religious belief
bordering on outright bigotry might be more credible if they acknowledged
the good that Christianity has contributed to the evoluntionary story.
Platt
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