[MD] Food for Thought

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting craigerb at comcast.net:

> > Re: the social & intellectual levels applying to only humans.
> 
> Pirsig made this statement in the current context of humans on earth.  I don't
> think he meant to exclude that the 3rd & 4th levels might apply 1) to "lower"
> species that might evolve or be educated, 2) to a "higher" species that might
> evolve from us or 3) to extraterrestrial species.
> 
> > Re: someone must be first to x.
> 
> This is true for some x but not others.  Someone might have been the first to eat
> a coconut.  But could there have been a first person to read?     
> 
> > Re: the social level.
> 
> I see a distinction between social as interpersonal & social as institutional. 
> The leader (alpha male) of a goriila troop has the former kind of social role, a
> mayor has the latter. 
> Craig
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