From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jun 25 2004 - 18:02:03 BST
Hi Anthony,
> The Zuni brujo example in LILA is designed to highlight the difference
> between biologcal based degenerates like Vogel (who are anti-progressive by
> leading us back into eighteenth century ideas about "race") and
> intellectually based radicals such as the brujo (who are progressive).
The brujo was an intellectually-based radical? That's news to me. A
radical to be sure, but one with "religious powers," not intellectual -- a
person who if you asked him why he acted the way he did couldn't answer,
only "following a vague sense of betterness." Also, 18th century ideas
about race are not biological-based since ideas, be definition, are
intellectual. Finally, not all old ideas are "anti-progressive" ideas, the
Ten Commandments for example.
> The quality that Vogel displays is therefore not Dynamic but based on a
> static latch which has now been largely discredited.
Agree. It's a static latch. So is the current proscription against talking
about racial differences. Any social value that attempts to block free
inquiry is an attempt to maintain the status quo and, in MOQ terms, blocks
DQ. Political correctness is a blight on intellect.
> No doubt it will
> appear here and there in the weaker minded members of the human race over
> the next few centuries but its basically had its day.
The term "weaker-minded" suggests an unattractive elitism, not to mention
it's ad hominem overtone.
For the record in no way do I find Cosmotheism worthwhile, primarily
because it is intellectually vapid and, in many cases, meaningless. In
other words, to borrow a phrase, it's weak-minded. :-)
By the same token, I cannot intellectually close the door on
investigations of racial differences that meet Pirsig's tests for truth --
logical consistency, agreement with experience, and economy of
explanation. To do so would violate the spirit of scientific inquiry and
the MOQ itself.
Best regards,
Platt
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