From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 14:34:01 BST
Hi Paul, Ham
Paul responded to Ham's quotation of Ayn Rand:
> I've answered Rand's asinine comments before. She should apply some
> of her proprietary reason to see that language cannot possibly be private
> and that the construction of skyscrapers, for example, is based on
> structural engineering principles which are the result of hundreds of years
> of development and communication through very public institutions.
Do you not recognize that language, engineering principles and
institutions were created by individuals? That somebody had to be first?
Language, principles and public institutions did not just drop from the
sky like rain. The MOQ tells us they were all created from responses by
individuals to DQ -- from the response of a carbon molecule to the DQ
force to the response of the Brujo to "a vague sense of betterness."
It's the individual, stepping outside the current static level, whether
the inorganic or social level, who drives evolution.
To create the MOQ, Pirsig the individual, rose above static SOM intellect.
No one else, least of all a public institution or a collective
consciousness, can lay claim to the authorship of ZMM and Lila.
Without doubt the static social "public" level is important. It supports
like a base camp the inquirers of the high country. But, it's those
individual explorers of the aesthetic continuum beyond the peaks who
produce the new and better.
If this be asinine, make the most of it. :-)
Best,
Platt
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