[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[Platt Holden]

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From: "Arlo Bensinger" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics


> Exactly. And I think this gets right at the only motivation for embracing 
> the "SOL", to demonize "intellect". As I said a few months back, Bo holds 
> onto the SOL out of a way of elevating "Western" nations (intellectual 
> people) above what he dismisses as the "social" people of the rest of the 
> world.
>
> When you read Bo's posts (peruse the archives), you see a definite and 
> undeniable "western elitism" that he uses to prop of the Euro-American 
> nations as "morally superior" to the inferior people of the world forever 
> dwelling in "the social level".

[Pirsig]
Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to 
the evolution of life.
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological 
values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture 
that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is 
absolutely superior to one that does not. (Lila, 24)

[Platt]
Even though Pirsig (and indeed the entire MOQ) contradicts Arlo's 
implication that "western elitism" and "moral superiority" is evil, one has 
to admire Arlo's self-adoring ability to psychoanalyze people he has never 
met.