[MD] Food for Thought

[David M]

Hi Platt

Would this mean that the creation of
all social patterns start out as new and
original but become conventional wisdom
ovet time?

David M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden at davtv.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Food for Thought


> Hi All, 
> 
> To me the social-intellectual distinction is simple. Social morality is 
> dominated by people conforming to conventional wisdom. (Ex: Rigel, the 
> English department at Bozeman. organized religion, the Pentagon, 
> scientific consensus). Intellectual morality is dominated by 
> nonconformist individual free thinkers. (Ex: Pirsig, Dusenberry, 
> Einstein, Jefferson) Ninety-nine percent of the populace are conformist 
> second-handers inhabiting the social level who rely on authorities 
> (priests, gurus, professors, politicians) to tell them what and how to 
> think. The truly free, creative thinkers - the brujos of the world -- 
> who inhabit the intellectual level and the higher artistic level are 
> historically rare, are considered by social level people to be 
> eccentric contrarians, but are responsible for every creative step that 
> has lifted mankind from the cave to the outer reaches of the solar 
> system. As Pirsig wrote, "A tribe (the social level collective) can 
> change its values only person by person, and SOMEONE has to be first." 
> (Lila, 9) (Parens and emphasis added) The "someone" of course is an 
> individual person responding to DQ, the "force of evolutionary 
> creation." 
> 
> Regards,
> Platt
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