[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Gene M]

> Didn't you say that government isn't strictly a social level value
> since government includes thinking which is an intellectual level
> value?


Platt, you're need to misunderstand astounds me. Government is a vast
conglomeration of patterns, both social and intellectual. Is that really a
difficult concept? Humans exist on all 4 levels, can't a Government exist on
more than one?

> Platt continues, "Thus some individuals are dominated
> > by biological values (terrorists), some by social
> > values (socialists)
> > and some by intellectual values (rational
> > empiricists). I identify the
> > levels like Pirsig does, by their dominance or
> > subservience to levels
> > below and above."
>
> Pirsig makes it clear that the social and intellectual levels are human-
> centric. Thus, to define the levels in human terms seems to me
> appropriate.
>
> Platt
>

No person exists entirely in a single level. We remain at all times a
conglomerate of them all. Sometimes one of them gets the upper hand and
dictates behaviour (When I'm reading a good book and I Really have to pee,
the biological will beat out the intellectual and I'll stop to go to the
bathroom). But it's always a balancing act between them all.
And to say that terrorists are in any way not also following their social
and intellectual levels is madness! They're as smart as you, with a culture
Much older than yours or mine.

I have a question for you Platt. What about understanding do you dislike so
much?

-Gene