[MD] Transhumanism

[MarshaV]

On Jun 20, 2010, at 9:32 AM, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:

> On 20 Jun 2010 at 5:34, MarshaV wrote:
> 
>> Question:
>> 
>> Conventionally speaking, what do intellectuals do?  
> 
> Hi Marsha,
> 
> As usual, Pirsig has the answer:
> 
> "There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have 
> to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows 
> and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity 
> and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head 
> empty in order to learn it. It's very easy to spend your whole life swishing 
> old tea around in your cup thinking it's great stuff because you've never 
> really tried anything new, because you could never get it in, because the old 
> stuff prevented its entry because you were so sure the old stuff was so good, 
> because you never really tried anything new . . . on and on in an endless 
> circular pattern." (Lila, 2)
> 
> No wonder intellectuals love loops, strange and otherwise. :-) 
> 
> Platt
> 


Hi Platt,

I'm trying to keep my head empty, and all I learn is there is nothing to 
know and no one to know it.  

I am so curious to learn what is an intellectual according to the posters 
on this MD list?  
 

Marsha 
 
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