[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 28 Jun 2010 at 20:18, X Acto wrote:

> Pirsig favors the paralell method of the free market not capitalism.

[Platt]
The free market is capitalism.  "What makes the free-enterprise system superior 
is that the socialists, reasoning intelligently and objectively, have 
inadvertently closed the door to Dynamic Quality in the buying and selling of 
things." (Lila, 17)  

Note the word "superior," i.e., better, higher Quality.  
 

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Platt Holden <plattholden at gmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 4:26:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics
> 
> 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.