[MD] Platt's Proverbs On Beauty

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Steve]
I was thinking the same thing when I read Platt's post, but I wonder 
if Platt's take on intellect polluting beauty is consistent with some 
of Pirsig's writings nevertheless.

[Arlo]
Only if Platt had said "S/O Intellect is blind to 'beauty'". If you 
go back to ZMM, I'm sure you can even stretch that complaint to 
include "pollute", but only with the S/O qualifier (pun intended). 
But "intellect" in-and-of-itself? Nope. Intellect is Pirsig's highest 
order of static value. I doubt Pirsig would ever say that "calculus" 
or "quantum physics" pollutes beauty, indeed he'd probably say these, 
like symphonies, can be very beautiful indeed. In fact, it was 
"intellect" in ZMM that Pirsig was trying to show  has been blinded 
by S/O perspectives, but that once those are removed, intellect (the 
assembly of rotisseries) can and SHOULD be an art form of the highest order.