[MD] Food for Thought

[David M]

> dmb says:
> This is where I gotta step in a defend the principle of opposition. I
> suppose disobedience would be a species of this principle, unless its just 
> a
> child's refusal or something. I mean, there is a section of Lila where
> Pirsig puts the distinction between the first and second levels in terms 
> of
> gravity. Life, he says is opposed to the laws of inorganic nature. Its 
> seeks
> to overcome them, exploit them for its own purposes. He says life could be
> defined by that which defies the law of gravity and inertia, or something
> like that. He doesn't mean that life can break the laws of nature, but
> locomotion and flight are ways to get around them, so to speak. This is a
> way to think about what it is that makes a level discrete and independent
> from its parent. In the same way, society can't defy or ignore the need 
> for
> food and sex or the desire for power, but it can tame these demands, 
> exploit
> them for its own purposes. And I'm just saying that a similar principle of
> oppostion applies to the relationship between the social and intellectual
> levels.


DM: Is this MOQ or Nietzsche's Will to power? What do you think DMB?