[MD] Unreality of Equality

[Heather Perella]

Hey Platt,

      Platt said:  ""Some things are better than
others." Again, experience confirms. Some ideas are
better than others, some values more enduring, some
works of art more universal, some cultures more
accomplished and therefore more worthy of study. (It
is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as
put a bone in your nose.)"

     Platt here I come again with that bow and arrow,
sorry I had to say that, but I did.  First you say
experience confirms, then you talk about he bone in
nose.  Have you ever tested out the bone in nose and
experienced it in the culture it resides within to
notice what kind of experience it would be?  Secondly,
here is a quote from Pirsig nearer the beginning of
Chapter 7, "Maybe he was just noticing it more because
he'd been thinking about Indians.  Some of these
differences are just urban-rural differences, and the
East is more urban.  But some of these differences
reflected European values too.  Every time he came
this way he could feel the people getting more formal
and impersonal and ... crafty.  Exploitative. 
European.  And petty too, and ungenerous.
     Out West among the Indians it's a standing joke
that the chief is the poorest man in the tribe.  Every
time somebody needs something he's the one they go to,
and by the Indian code, 'the generosity of the
frontier,' he has to help them."

     We could dissect this a great deal if we wanted
to and how much generosity leads to enough is enough,
hunt on your own won't you, kind of mentality.  Yet,
my point is values do go deeper than a surface bone in
the nose judge-mentality.  What is the point of the
bone in the nose within that culture?  Why is it
valued?  If the value is worth-while and you don't
want the bone in the nose, yet, you like the value
maybe you could bring the value into your culture, if
the value is more universally linked, but did you
experience the culture to learn and understand what
that value might be in the first place?
     Sure inequality is a reality and a positive one
at that I believe, and I understand I might be forcing
my view into your view and our views may argue thus
creating an atmosphere where one or the other or
others might think this is a battle between your view
and my view.  To make this bigger than it really is
even further this might be perceived as your view or
my view is on a quest of global domination, thus, one
of us or others might take either view as competing
views that in the end one could win out.  When one
wins out then they have made the world have more of an
equal view, because no competitors exist anymore, but
is this really happening?  No, because I think even
amongst my view their is a diverse array of views and
thus, inequalities, and probably amongst your view as
well.  Our views are even inequal views as well it
seems.  I just had to let this all out to get by the
contrast into the Quality of where the Unreality of
Equality is to possible exercise our intellect
towards.

Thanks,
SA  

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