From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 08 2004 - 19:57:21 BST
Dear MarshaV:
PH writes:
> >I have no more intention of reading Chomsky's "Deterring Democracy" than
> >you have of reading Rush Limbaugh's "See, I Told You So." There are
> >thousands of books both pro and con America. A lifetime isn't long enough
> >to read them all.
>
> Dear Platt,
>
> Are you really equating Noam Chomsky to Rush Limbaugh?
Of course. In fact, Limbaugh's views are higher quality than Chomsky's. He
battles for freedom while Chomsky champions Marxism. Pirsig explains:
"This soup of sentiments about logically nonexistent entities can be
straightened out by the Metaphysics of Quality. It says that what is meant
by "human rights" is usually the moral code of intellect-vs. -society, the
moral right of intellect to be free of social control. Freedom of speech;
freedom of assembly, of travel; trial by jury; habeas corpus; government
by consent-these "human rights" are all intellect-vs.-society issues.
According to the Metaphysics of Quality these "human rights" have not just
a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. They are
essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of
life. They are for real. (Lila, 24)"
Thanks for the question.
Regards,
Platt
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