From: skutvik@online.no
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 08:57:18 BST
Hi Ant (Platt "treated")
On 22 Aug. you wrote
> You’re quite correct that the motives of the Iraqi suicide candidates
> have little to do with the Lila quote in chapter 24 about “the old
> biological might-makes-right morality of prehistoric brigandage that
> primitive societies were set up to overcome.”
Yes, I regard it as self-evident.
> However, this confusion
> surrounding this issue has little to do with the “MOQ orthodoxy” or
> the SOL
I' m not so sure but let it rest.
> but rather just reveals how equally brainwashed Platt and
> these young Iraqi suicide candidates have been by their respective
> cultural backgrounds.
The immediate US reaction to Sep.11 was of course a retreat to
the social level of patriotism and some may still be there. And
because the social level's enemy is biology the perpetrators must
necessarily be regarded as "vermin".
> Platt is just misrepresenting the MOQ with his
> notion of “biological terrorism” (which is as nonsensical as an
> “intellectual brick”) so it’s especially ironic that he considers
> Pirsig’s thoughts on social conditioning to be one of the weakest
> parts of the MOQ.
The various levels are oblivious of values above themselves,
thus if Platt is (temporarily) social-level lodged he is (temporarily)
oblivious of intellectual values (not willing to look objectively on
terrorism) But intellect is a static level and does its own
conditioning, it insists that there is nothing above itself.
Consequently even the MOQ must be an intellectual pattern.
Sorry I could not help myself ;-)
Bo
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