[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Arlo said]
  And my point to that is if WE, the three soldiers, simply always allow 
the STATE to tell us what is moral and what is not, then we will see 
history repeat itself, because the STATE will always put its own interests 
OVER intellectual quality and Dynamic Quality.

[Platt assuming the above was Ben replied]
Totally as an aside to your post to Ben, I thank you for making another 
argument for my case to rename the intellectual level the "individual" 
level. The clear implication of your statement is that collective state 
interests can never be based on or attain intellectual quality.

[Arlo]
Actually, Arlo does not confuse the "state" with the "collective 
consciousness of all communicating mankind". Intellectual level patterns, 
such as calculus or the MOQ, emerge from the historical-dialectically 
generated activity of individuals participating in the collective milieu 
(or as Pirsig refers to it, the collective consciousness of all 
communicating mankind). The "state" is not this, but rather a formalized 
system of governing human activity.