[MD] The MoQ.org STRANGLES Creativity

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Plattman slides away from SA's valid point]
Lest this be interpreted to mean that there are no moral differences among
cultures past and present, I offer this reminder from Pirsig... (snip)

[The Jarloker]
Yeah, c'mon, SA. Haven't you learned by now? We are the Most Moral Culture and
People in the World. We are better in every way than everyone else. We are
Divine. Holy. Moral. Superior. Transcendent of the dither-dather that is all
other peoples and cultures. And what was it Pirsig also said... oh yes... 

"Victorians wanted to destroy "inferior" societies because inferior societies
were a form of evil. Colonialism, which before that time was an economic
opportunity, became with Victorians a moral course, a "white man's burden" to
spread their social patterns and thus virtue throughout the world."

Its quite easy to see who the modern champions are of this "burden". And who is
trying to use the MOQ to say "it's okay".

I'm also reminded of this passage from Pirsig...

"Trying to understand a member of another culture is impossible without taking
into account differences in value. If a Frenchman asks, "How can Germans stand
to live the way they do?" he will get no answer as long as he applies French
values to the question. If a German asks, "How can the French stand to live the
way they do?" he will get no answer as long as he applies German values to the
question."