[MD] From each... to each

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Craig]
People fall along a spectrum from objective to non-objective, some are far
enough toward the objective end of the spectrum to be considered objective
(though not, of course, perfectly so), others not.  Sometimes we can identify
our biases (otherwise, how could we know we have them?).

[Arlo]
Isn't this a classic example of SOM?

[Craig]
Sometimes a wolf's having sharp teeth is a good thing for us, sometimes not. 
Either way, the wolf's teeth are still sharp.  The first person to discover
this, did not learn it from the language or from the culture, but from
experience.

[Arlo]
The "first person" discovered only "low quality". Later, in dialogic interaction
others, a negotion of symbolic representation occured over historical time. If
enough people who learned the symobolism valued the description, it "latched"
into the collective consiousness of the culture. Then, as new children
assimilated this culture, they mistakenly just came to see it as "the way
things were".

Just for a point of clarity, I take it, Craig, that you also dismiss all of what
Pirsig says about language, culture and the collective consciousness (mythos)
as it contradicts Randian thinking? If this is so, let's just let it at this.
I'm not out to win you over. (Or do you think there is support in Pirsig for
what you are saying?)

Arlo