[MD] grmbl

[Platt Holden]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Andre Broersen <andrebroersen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Platt to Andre:
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> '...S/O began to preserve social values and then took off
> on purposes of its own, becoming the intellectual level (better named the
> individual level because it because it opposes collectivist values.)
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> Andre:
> Thanks for clarifying this Platt. I should have known better. I thought the
> intellectual level held values such as human rights, freedom of speech,
> freedom of assembly, of travel, trial by jury, habeas corpus, government by
> consent. And these are not 'collectivist values' then?
>

>From Merriam-Webster: "collectivism -- 1 : a political or economic theory
advocating collective control especially over production and distribution;
also : a system marked by such control"

In other words, communism/socialism, opposed to individual rights, also
condemned by Pirsig for blocking DQ. .

Platt


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