From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 12:11:10 GMT
Hi JoVo, Sam, All:
Sam hits the nail on the head:
> In essence, 'liberal' in the context of US politics is equivalent to
> 'socialist' in EU politics.
JoVo accurately interprets Pirsig:
>> The
> > reason to dwell on that is, that I consider it to be as one of Pirsigs
> > messages in his two books . . .
> > - that an individual should aim at making independant choices in all his
> > doings; taking responsibility for what he does. To do so he should get
> > rid of - or better - should carefully review his opinions to sort out
> > those, that basically stick to the social and not the intellectual level.
> > Furthermore, Pirsig pleads for a free market in contrast to a guided
> > market..
Pirsig pinpoints socialism's fatal defect:
"You go to any socialist city and it's always a dull place because there's
little Dynamic Quality." (Lila-17)
Case in point: Socialists in Spain capitulating to biological level
terrorism.
Regards,
Platt
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