[MD] What Bo Doesn't Get

[Krimel]

Steve to Andre:
I think the mythos is best associated with social patterns.

Krimel to Andre:
Both mythos and logos are purely parts of the intellectual level.

Andre:
Hi Steve, Krimel. Thank you both for taking the time to respond to my post.

I do not intend, by highlighting these 2 views above that there is no
agreement between the 2 points of view. Can I suggest that, keeping
the Pirsig quote Steve mentioned ( about the cave man... social
patterns, rituals...from these may emerge intellectual patterns) in
mind... that those parts of the mythos handed down to us, either in
written,spoken or other artistic form 'made it' into the intellectual
level?

[Krimel]
Ideas that are preserved, however they are preserve: that is the
intellectual LEVEL. Look at those cave paintings, for example. At the time
of their painting, the artist and his contemporaries shared an understanding
of what they were painting and why. They could talk about whatever that was
and they painted pictures to illustrate their points to one another. That
was their intellectual level. Not just a few cave paintings but the shared
understanding of the people who created those paintings. All that survives
of those people's intellectual level is painted on the rock wall. The rest
is lost, or forgotten if you will.

The intellectual level is made up of ideas and what differs between the
intellectual level represented in cave painting and the intellectual level
today is mainly a matter of quantity and technological enhancements that
make ideas static and less like to be forgotten, things like writing, the
printing press, film, and the digital revolution.

The _level_ consists not in the use of symbols but in the symbols
themselves.