From: Arlo Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 01:54:32 BST
Good evening Platt,
One final thought for me for the evening, and then its off to entertaining
academics...
> > Pirsig seems to feel, as I agree, that the emergent aspect of recognizing
> > Quality as a noun will restructure the way people act within the culture.
> > This is why I've long stated my belief in "changing the dialogue" (or
> > attempting to, against the onslaught of talk-radio, news media,
> > entertainment and embedded cultural values that seek to preserve old SOM
> > ways of thinking, and reify old SOM materialistic and political patterns).
>
>Now it's my turn not to get the connection. I don't see that MOQ thinking
>supports CEP, or heaven forbid, censorship. But, if you're saying more
>people ought to read and absorb the MOQ, I agree. It won't preclude anyone
>from wanting to acquire wealth, at least enough to buy a boat and a
>motorcycle. :-)
Want to make clear that neither myself, nor any inference I've read in
Pirsig, supports "censorship". In my criticism of forms of media that seek
to preserve old SOM ways of thinking, and reify old SOM materialistic and
political patterns (including talk-radio, news media, entertainment and
other embedded SOM (I've added that) cultural values, I never once meant to
imply they should be "censored". Rather, there needs to be a combative
force that confronts, critical examines, makes visible (illuminates) these
static patterns and argues aggressively for a paradigm shift based on MOQ
type thinking. We'd all certainly agree with that, no?
OK. Off to have drinks with applied linguists...
Arlo
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