From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 19 2004 - 15:38:11 BST
Hi MSH,
You wrote:
> Thanks for the info. BTW, Vogel called you a Marxist. You're not
> gonna let him get away with that, are you? I'm not sure, but I think he
> thinks everyone who isn't a racist is a Marxist.
Vogel called me a Marxist? I must have missed it.
One of my favorite authors is Tom Wolfe. In an article entitled
"Digibabble, Fairy Dust and the Human Anthill," he wrote:
"But in the twentieth century, the Darwin story of human life--natural
selection, sexual selection, survival of the fittest and all the rest of
it--had been overshadowed by the Freudian and Marxist stories. Marx said
social class determined a human being's destiny. Freud said it was the
Oedipal drama within the family. Both were forces external to the newborn
infant. Darwinists, Wilson foremost among them, turned all that upside
down and proclaimed that the genes the infant was born with determined his
destiny."
An interesting viewpoint. But, more interesting is the idea that our human
response to Dynamic Quality is genetic. In speaking about "internal
forces" in a new born baby, Pirsig wrote:
"From the baby's point of view, something, he knows not what, compels
attention. This generalized "something," White-head's "dim apprehension,"
is Dynamic Quality." (Lila, 9)
This would, of course, apply to all humans regardless of race.
Best,
Platt
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