[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Case to The Plattman]
For crying out loud man we murdered millions of people across an entire
continent and this is ok with you?

[The Plattman Replyeth]
I you want to feel guilty about something you didn't do, be my guest. Collective
guilt is no more sensible than collective ideas.

[Arlo Jumps In]
Score three points for the rhetorical shift!

If its about "feeling guilty", why should I feel guilty about Mao and Hitler,
attrocities you do mention? Case's point, and its a good one, is that we need
to be as critical of our own actions as we are of others. But to a crowd
capable of doing nothing but Righteous Chest Thumping, such a feat is quite
impossible to expect.

[Plattman also Speaketh to Case]
I don't think the MOQ is based on Indian stories.

[Arlo]
Of course not, you can dismiss all parts of Lila that talk about "Indians", just
like you dismiss all of ZMM. It's all hippy, new-age, commie stuff. Especially
the part where Pirsig says...

"Then the huge peyote illumination came:

They're the originators!

It expanded until he felt as though he had walked through the screen of a movie
and for the first time watched the people who were projecting it from the other
side.

Most of the rest of the whole tray of slips, many more than a thousand of them
before him here, was a direct growth from this one original insight."