From: Arlo Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 19:32:38 BST
[Arlo previously]
In fact, Pirsig states "Society exists primarily to free people from these
biological chains." Apparently not only "60s intellectuals" have forgotten
that fact.
[Platt]
As usual, Arlo deceptively omits the part of the quote that gives it a
whole different meaning. The next sentence reads: "It has done that job so
stunningly well intellectuals forget the fact and turn upon society with a
shameful ingratitude for what society has done."
[Arlo]
Get a clue, Platt. I was depending on the sentence. Hence the statement
"Apparently not only "60s intellectuals" have forgotten that fact." Read,
it is you, my dear Platt, that are turning on social patterns with shameful
ingratitude.
[Platt]
The phrase "stunningly well" makes it clear that Pirsig has no political
agenda, like universal health care, in mind.
[Arlo]
I don't think Universal Health Care is a "political agenda", I think it is
a moral virtue of the social level. Yep, social level patterns have worked
"stunningly well" in providing the means for many people to overcome the
chains of biological necessity. But not all. There are still many who are
chained by biological necessity, here and abroad, and it is to social-level
patterns we turn for the morality to find a solution to this.
What's sad is that despite the "stunningly well" success social patterns of
morality have had in alleviating the prison of biologic necessity,
modern-day "intellectual conservatives" want to dismantle these social
patterns, to let it up to so-called "individuals" to find a means to break
the chains of their own biological necessity. A reversion to
biological-level morality if there ever was one.
Arlo
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