[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[David Thomas]

Mary,
> Can you guess where this is going? :)
Yes, absolutely.  I read your other post to Khoo already and in general
agree. ZaMM, in part, is a tale of what can happen when an Ego is wounded
early and often.

> It is a profoundly Western idea to say that Orientals (or Indians or
> Eskimos) are evolutionarily inferior if they lack our Greek intellectual
> inheritance.  Where did Pirsig ever say that?  He didn't.

I agree he did not. But he did point initially to the Greeks as the source
of SOM and SINGLE SOURCE of the emergence of the intellectual level. Later
he wobbled on that in some comment somewhere I recall but did not clearly
dismiss his single source claim. Many people, Bo in particular, have pounded
on that "Greeks and Greeks only" intellectual emergence drum, forever. I and
others have pointed out the CONSEQUENCES of PIRSIG'S claim over and over to
no avail. 
> Kidding aside, the Intellectual Level is a STATIC Level.
You pointed out (I think, but I may be wrong) that you prefer MoValue to
Quality. I prefer stable to static. Pirsig uses both synonymously but static
implies more rigidity to me, not as plastic. I prefer saying the
intellectual level is the most dynamic, but it is also the most unstable.

Dave