From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 15:35:01 BST
Hi All,
The only possible MOQ answer to DMB's latest tirade of insult, invective,
irrelevancies, sophistry, myths and anger is the following:
"What makes the free-enterprise system superior is that the socialists,
reasoning intelligently and objectively, have inadvertently closed the
door to Dynamic Quality in the buying and selling of things. They closed
it because the metaphysical structure of their objectivity never told them
Dynamic Quality exists." (Lila, 17)
To all egalitarians, communitarians and other radical left-wingers who
think the MOQ supports their collectivist social values--read it again and
weep. Intellect sides with free enterprise.
As for the argument that culture is to blame for inequalities in IQ,
reread what Pirsig says about culture:
"But it is not immoral to speak against a person because of his cultural
characteristics if those cultural characteristics are immoral. These are
changeable and they do matter." (Lila, 24)
A cultural characteristic that says dedicating yourself to getting an
education is "acting white" and therefore not to be valued is immoral.
Bill Cosby put it plainly in a gathering of blacks on the 50th anniversary
of Brown vs. Board of Education. He said, "Brown versus the Board of
Education is no longer a white person's problem. We have got to take the
neighborhood back . . . They are standing on the corner, and they can't
speak English," and " . . . We cannot blame white people . . ."
So much for the AAA statement on race.
Best,
Platt
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