From: Ant McWatt (antmcwatt@hotmail.co.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 20:46:53 GMT
Platt stated to Arlo December 1st:
>A choir doesn't form itself. Someone had to initiate it, start it up, get
>it going, audition applicants, choose a choirmaster, etc., etc. Choirs
>don't magically emerge in the chancel while the congregation watches awe-
>struck at the miracle.
Arlo informed Platt in a high quality analogy:
Some "individual" voices may indeed be keystone species (heart cells), while
others carry the strength to alter the entire organism (DNA), while others
still are not keystone, but peripheral voices, adding color and life. But
from all these voices emerges the MOQ. Which, if you believe the MOQ, is an
organism with a life of its own, as the Giant emerges from biological
activity, the MOQ emerges from social activity.
Platt replied to Arlo December 1st:
Be that as it may, the MOQ did not emerge from "all these voices" but from
one voice, that of Robert Pirsig. Nor is it a biological organism. It's a
metaphysics.
Ant McWatt comments:
Yes, a metaphysics that clearly contends that social patterns appeared a
long, long, (long) time in this universe before intellectual patterns
appeared to label biological organisms as "individuals" such as "Robert
Pirsig" or "Cartman 'I love hippies' Holden".
Close but definitely no banana (which - anyway - only ever appear in
non-Randian/commie looking bunches if I remember correctly!)
Best wishes,
Anthony
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