[MD] French ingredient in the soup of sentiments

[Platt Holden]

Hi SA and JCB,

One of you wrote (I'm not sure which):

> The social is being valued higher than the individual
> where the intellect works.  The intellect can work socially, but not
> vice versa where the social hand shaking in Washington shapes the kind
> of intellectual development.

I've always claimed that the intellect is individual, not social, and 
have even advocated changing Pirsig's intellectual level to the  
"individual level." Do either of you feel this might be a positive step 
in clarifying the distinction between the social and intellectual 
levels?

Platt