[MD] Social Imposition ?

[David M]

Hi Platt

Yet there remains what we share, otherwise
the actual would be chaos.

David M


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> Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>
>> Platt
>>
>> But these are not simply individual they are in common,
>> like the fact we have both read Pirsig, so we can talk
>> of a common culture that we all share different bits of.
>
> Yes, but David surely you can see that each of us individually interprets
> what we have read. That's what this whole site is about, exchanging our
> individual interpretations of our individual experiences from reading 
> Pirsig's
> work. A group, a team, a society is an abstract concept. Collectivists 
> like
> to make us all the same so they can control us, like sheep. But even 
> Bessie
> the sheep is different from Betty the sheep, and the even names of those 
> two
> sheep are not the sheep themselves. It's a long way from what is "common"
> to what is "actual."
>
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