[MD] Social Imposition ?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:


> [Case]
> Since writing seems to have developed independently in various parts of the
> world and since nothing defines a culture so much as its language I am
> sticking with multicultural.

You're guessing. In my experience, when something human is invented, someone
has to be first. Pirsig agrees.

> [Platt]
> Didn't you in a post some time back reject Pirsig's explanation of
> evolution? Anyway, I don't find anything about "equilibrium" in Pirsig's
> explanation. Here you talk about "systems" as scientists do.
> 
> [Case]
> I have definitely reacted against Pirsig's dumbed down version expressed in
> chapter 11. What about equilibrium and systems talk bothers you?

It doesn't explain why. And it ignores individuals who comprise a "system."



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