From: David M (davidint@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 04 2005 - 22:35:10 BST
Hi Arlo
This is a key passage. SOM does not just appear
it develops and reaches an extreme. At its extreme
we no longer see any value in human beings, they
have become just another object. Marcuse covers
this well, of course. Thanks for quote.
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arlo J. Bensinger" <ajb102@psu.edu>
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Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: MD Katrina - Thousands Dead ?
Hi Sam,
> I thought people might find it interesting. Particularly the "it's not
> financial capital, it's social capital. the u.s. in this sense has zero
> social capital" which I think links in closely with Pirsig's point (so
> long
ago!!!) about a natural american resource that seems to have gone down the
plughole.
Yep, this reminds me of what Pirsig said in ZMM: Phædrus remembered a line
from
Thoreau: "You never gain something but that you lose something." And now he
began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when
he
gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths,
had
lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the
phenomena
of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and
wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal
magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not
an
enemy of it.
Arlo
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