From: Johannes Volmert (jvolmert@student.uni-kassel.de)
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 17:31:36 GMT
Hi Bo,
just another few annotations, I forgot to mention in my previous post.
I don't want to refute your thoughts as exposed on this
discussion-platform in general, nor do I reject your SOLAQI-concept as a
whole. I must admit that I had given up to understand its subtler
implications, that might be there and get vaguely visible now and then,
apart from your central thesis.
What I reject solely is your central thesis, that states that the MOQ is
going to be a new level.
Not do I neglect in general that a fifth level is possible, although I
have my reservations about that. And also I won't neglect that the MOQ
would play a substantial role in an enlarged understanding of the world,
i.e. that the MOQ can contribute something to the understanding in which
direction mankind ought to go and to resolve some problems that have
troubled some people so much (that's what I'm here for at least: to
enlarge my understanding of the world).
It is therefore not impossible that as a result a new level emerges,
though I don't think so by now. But nevertheless I don't consider the
MOQ to be the new level *itself*, not only because the MOQ is in my
opinion clearly an intellectual formulation and therefore to be asserted
to the intellectual level, but also because it only *points* to a
direction, to an improvement, to reframing of the predominat worldview.
Nobody, not even the most fervent MOQist, can believe, that everything
will happen exactly as Pirsig is predicting/proposing and also Pirsig
himself points out on numerous occasions, that the MOQ has to be taken
as as provisional.
A little bit of teasing ;-):
The way you argue sometimes reminds me a bit of an old fable (back then
when people have to find ways to utter criticism towards authorities).
The fable of the hare and the hedgehog
It is about a bet between a hare and a hegdehog that resulted in a race
between them. They made an appointment to run along a furrow on a
freshly furrowed acre. Each of both should run the distance, say, ten times.
So they started their race and each time the hare finished one lane,
the hegdehog sat there smiling triumphantly at the hare, saying "I'm
already there!". In the end after the hare agreed the hedgehog being
the winner of the race, asking how that could be, the hedgehog revealed
that there were actually two hedgehogs - he and his wife sat at both
sides of the acre along the furrow.
Regards, JoVo
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