[MD] U.S. Values: the Jones

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> In Lila Pirsig made no such caveat about the free market being...
> 
> [Arlo]
> That's cause he said this already in ZMM.

So he assumed everyone who read Lila not only read ZMM but remembered everything
in it? As usual, you stretch credibility to the breaking point. 

> [Platt]
> If you can find where Pirsig made any connection whatsoever between slavery and
> the free market, let us know. Otherwise, dream on.
> 
> [Arlo]
> The "free market" was happily selling people. It was not the market that was
> flawed, it was the cultural devaluation of people.

So you can't cite where Pirsig made any connection between slavery and the free
market. I thought so. 

> [Platt]
> He covered new ground in Lila alright -- a sign of his personal growth as he
> found a new metaphysics and identified the openness to Dynamic Quality of the
> free market  vs. the stagnation of Marxist socialism. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Both ZMM and LILA are a total metaphysical exposition. He doesn't repeat
> himself, nor does he contradict himself. His criticisms of the metaphysical
> foundations of our culture, and their effects on the market, are undeniably
> "moral".

Answer 1) what are the metaphysical foundations of the U.S. culture, and 2)
how those foundations effect the free market. Otherwise, you are just blowing
more smoke. 




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