[MD] Are we the people stupid?

[Platt Holden]

[Arlo}
> I admire your chutzpah in admitting that you want a return to "Victorian
> values". Pirsig anticipated it. And lo and behold, conservatives ask for
> it. But, you should heed Pirsig's warnings.
> 
> "It just got worse and worse around here. The rich got glitzier and
> glitzier and the poor got scuzzier and scuzzier until you finally got to
> New York City. Homeless crazies hovering over ventilator grates while
> billionaires are escorted past them to their limousines. With each
> somehow accepting this as natural."
> 
> Which is, of course, the party line. Is it not?
 
Of course, your Marxist party line is a constant and ferocious denial 
of the Dynamic aspect of free capitalist markets and now New York City, 
leaving the reader to believe that Pirsig never wrote this:

"Well, of course! My God! Look at it! The power of this place! 
Fantastic! What individual work of art can come anywhere near to 
equalling it? Sure: dirty, noisy, rude, dangerous, expensive. Always 
has been and probably always will be. Always been a hell-hole if what 
you're looking for is stability and serenity. . . . But if you're 
looking for stability and serenity, go to a cemetery, don't come here! 
This is the most Dynamic place on earth!" (Lila, 17)

Platt