From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 23:13:03 BST
In a message dated 9/26/03 10:43:55 PM GMT Daylight Time, abahn@comcast.net
writes:
> Mark,
>
> I hate to jump in here, but aren't you being a tad bit melodramatic here.
>
> Mark: "Speaking as one who sincerely wishes for the MoQ to help others, as i
> feel it has helped me, i cannot but help feeling frustrated surveying the
> damaging consequences of Bo's contribution in recent years."
>
> Andy: I think that if you really wish for the MoQ to help others the easiest
> thing to do is give them a copy of ZMM and Lila and then let them reach
> their
> own conclusions. Bo can't take anything away from that. Pirsig's work will
> have to stand on its own. It doesn't need any desciples nor does it need a
> following. Give everybody else the same room you had to decide which
> interpretations are useful and which are not.
>
> Andy
>
> Real learning is always its own reward and praise is as useless to it as
> punishment.
> John Taylor Gatto
>
Hi Andy,
I agree with your thinking in this regard.
However, and this may be the source of a perceived melodramatic note, i have
personally witnessed students naively exploring the forum and being confused
by terms such as Q-intellect; terms which have been presented as synonymous
with the MoQ.
Further, students and neoMoQers do not know what to make of people asserting
they are the author of the 'proper MoQ.' It does not look good.
Now please reflect for a moment? Imagine how it feels for an individual such
as i to hear the reaction of people dismissing Bo's views as ridiculous, and
all the while attributing his views to RMP? Just because you can easily
distinguish between the views of Bo and those of RMP does not mean it is as easy for
everyone else? A degree of tolerance and understanding must prevail? A
tolerance which has been exploited by Bo to Trojan Horse his own views into the
forum.
Mark.
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