[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[Case]

[Platt]
Creative people are the catalysts of evolution. They tap into DQ, the 
"free force of life."  That's why creative individuals are so 
important.  Pirsig illustrates this with the story of the brujo, and 
puts the individual front and center  by observing "someone has to be 
first."  

[Case]
Out of curiosity here have you checked out the source document I posted
regarding the originally account of the brujo? I wonder if it changes your
understanding of the story as related by Benedict via Pirsig?

http://www.ispots.com/Mambo/images/stories/Bunzels%20Zuni%20Brujo.pdf

[Case]
> Should we arrange our social structures to defend the ownership of ideas
> at the expense of the public interest and the public purse?

[Platt]
Who is to say what the "public interest" is? All the horrors of history 
have been done in the name of the public interest.

[Case]
Is this a trick question? In our society our elected officials determine the
public interest. Our history is full of horrors but we have only ourselves
to blame for electing the likes of Reagan and his evil spawn. Clearly, a
case of good men doing nothing.