[MD] Neoconservatism

[Platt Holden]

Hi Steve, 

> [Platt]
> > High quality for the social level is to make everyone equal.
 
[Steve]
> I don't think this is true at all. Pirsig spent a great deal of time
> explaining social quality in terms of celebrity. Also, social roles such
> as mother, father, chief, warrior, etc are the quintissential social
> patterns that aren't about everyone being the same but about everyone
> playing their part.

Well, this is one of your intellectual patterns of which we can have a 
conversation about its truth or falsehood. :-) Pirsig spent a great 
deal of time explaining how the idea of social equality came from the 
Indians and was the principle that justified our Civil War. That's why 
I called it a high quality for the social level although the better 
argument might be that it is a high quality intellectual pattern that 
opposes the social class system where "everyone plays his part.".   
 
Platt