[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[Platt Holden]

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Nice one Dave.

On 28/06/2010 19:20, david buchanan wrote:
> Marsha wants to kill the thing of highest value, the most evolved static 
> quality. Obviously, I feel a great deal of contempt for that sort of 
> thing. American culture has an anti-intellectual streak that goes all the 
> way back and at the moment they are quite vigorous. The militia movement 
> and the John Birchers are overlapping with the tea baggers and the whole 
> thing is highly amplified in churches, on talk radio and FOX, etc.. Does 
> any of that serve the cause of integrating DQ into our modes of 
> rationality? No, of course not. It's just heavily coded white supremacy 
> and the glorification of social authority, of God, guns and money. 
> Especially money. Somehow, they got the white working class to believe 
> that capitalism and freedom are the same thing. In Pirsig's formulation, 
> political freedom is freedom of the mind. Freedom of speech, of religion, 
> of expression and the other freedoms named in the Bill of Rights (the U.S. 
> Constitution) are all about protecting the freedom of the i
>   ntellect. It's not about the freedom to shop, you know? Not that we 
> should regulate the malls. I'm just saying that these free-market 
> cheerleaders have a very shallow and distorted notion of what freedom is. 
> I mean, anti-intellectualism is not just a stance some MOQers hold. It's a 
> regressive, reactionary, anti-evolutionary force in the culture. Our 
> fundamentalists are every bit as bad as the Islamic extremist that they 
> love to hate. That poison leaks in from a wider world, you know?

[Platt]
Poor DMB and his fellow travelers. He just can't stomach the fact that 
Pirsig in no uncertain terms favors capitalism over socialism. Nor can he 
accept the fact that intellectuals are taken to task by Pirsig for being 
completely ignorant of  the role that social moral patterns play in keeping 
biological patterns under control. Result: the "social catastrophe" of the 
present day. Why are intellectuals responsible for this catastrophe? Because 
they are stuck in the rigid frame of SOM.