From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 01:15:05 BST
I know this is about the education post but I just wanted to add for me that quote wasn't about action vs. no action (which that thread title seems to suggest to me). I am not sure but I don't thin Platt suggested anything like that either. It's not about not changing anything. It's more where do you start the change? Do you focus on trying to change yourself or focus on telling other people on how they should change?
I don't think working on your motorycyle is on the sidelines...or out of the game/inactive/passive.
I think baseball is a good analogy... you are up to bat as an individual but that indiviudal is still part of a team.
Erin
"Arlo J. Bensinger" <ajb102@psu.edu> wrote:All,
[Mati had questioned my use of the term "MOQ Society". Platt agrees with this,
saying]
I appreciate Mati reminding us that the MOQ shouldn't be thought of as a
doctrine to shape society. We don't want to use it as a platform for
believing we know what's best for others. It's fun to play "If I were
king." But, thanks to Erin, we're reminded of Pirsig's belief that "The
place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands,
then work outward from there." In Lila (9) he says, "A tribe can only
change it's values person by person and someone has to be first."
[Arlo]
How do we change the world "one person at a time" without talking about what
changes would be most in line with the philosophy we all here discussing? Or
without someone "taking the first step"?
Platt, you seem to be of the mindset that "until the entire nation adopts the
MOQ, we shouldn't change a thing". I disagree. Because some of us do place
value in the MOQ, we must be moved to work to implement change. Locally, first,
but also in the larger dialogue.
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