From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun May 09 2004 - 18:00:46 BST
DMB:
> It strikes
> me as a rather crude formulation to equate terrorists and criminals with
> the biological level and then assert that we ought to kill them like germs.
> This sentiment echoes Hitler, not Pirsig.
From Pirsig:
"Phaedrus had had no answer at the time, but he had one now. The idea that
biological crimes can be ended by intellect alone, that you can talk crime
to death, doesn't work. Intellectual patterns cannot directly control
biological patterns. Only social patterns can control biological patterns,
and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not
words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has
always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun." (Lila, 24)
Would you like to rephrase what you said about not echoing Pirsig and
comparing him to Hitler?
Platt
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