From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 13 2005 - 12:35:09 BST
> msh 7-12-05:
> Please provide a single example of my answering a question by saying
> "Read Chomsky." I've often said that anyone who criticizes Chomsky's ideas
> (or anyone else's ideas) has an intellectual responsibility to be familiar
> with his work. I've also developed my own ideas with references to
> Chomsky's well-documented work, as well as to the well- document work of
> dozens of other progressive thinkers. This is hardly the same as an appeal
> to authority.
Who made you the last word on "intellectual responsibility?"
> msh 7-12-05:
> It's not my task (or right) to single-handedly bring about the Moral
> Society, even if I could. My position is that a more moral society
> will evolve naturally if we work to remove the physical and
> psychological impediments blocking the vast majority of people from
> realizing their full human potential.
>
> To this end, I've argued for specific actions, including:
> prohibiting wealth from unduly influencing domestic and foreign
> policy; prohibiting wealth (and power) from dominating the
> propagation of information; and prohibiting the privatization of life-
> essential products and services.
>
> So far, you've failed to demonstrate how such actions are
> antithetical to the moral underpinnings of the Metaphysics of
> Quality.
Prohibit, prohibit, prohibit. The MOQ moral underpinning antithetical to
such actions -- in a nutshell:
"Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of realty, the
source of all things, completely simple and always new. It was the moral
force that had motivated the brujo in Zuni. It contains no pattern of
fixed rewards and punishments. Its only perceived good is freedom and its
only perceived evil is static quality itself-any pattern of one-sided
fixed values that tries to contain and kill the ongoing free force of
life." (Lila, 9)
Platt
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