[MD] French ingredient in the soup of sentiments

[Heather Perella]

Hello,

     Platt says:  "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.
 

   Platt goes on the say:  "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?"

     Yes,  it is a positive step.  Yet, I would add
what the individual intellectualizes is not
necessarily only in the mind of the individual.  The
intellect is to become a mirror of life that is much
larger than just any particular culture.  I say
become, due to the influx of DQ that would take
intellect into a much fuller realization of the
overall quality that is.  This DQ influx I have argued
stabilizes intellect in a quality world that is not
only human fashioned, but is non-human thought, too. 
Thereby we realize in a quality world, a world that is
not just a human view, but a world that includes
participation of stars, squirrels, and all else here.

SA

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