[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> 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

The story related by Pirsig makes the point that individuals are responsible
for social evolution. Other stories about the brujo are irrelevant.

> [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.

By your definition, Reagan and his spawn are in the public interest. As for our
history being full of horrors, they pale in comparison to the horrors perpetrated
by nazism, fascism, Muslim fundamentalism and communism -- especially communism. 

Platt






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