[MD] Politics and Change

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> Platt this is where your twisted rhetoric really grates ...
> 
> The quoted paragraph is about the then current perceived state of
> intellect as "science the appointed intellectual pattern" - not all
> possible intellects for ever.

So you claim intellect has changed in the short time Pirsig wrote those words?
How would you convince him? 

> I think we've all agreed GOF "science" is not the whole intellectual
> story. Scientific empiricism does indeed not "see" morals, but science
> / intellect is more than the basic empiricism of science --- look at
> the threads where we've been discussing exactly this.

Please specify the threads where Pirsig's view that the scientific worldview
dominates intellect is argued against.  

> To summarise DMB - a flaw in one intellectual pattern is no reason to
> abandon intellect entirely (and this is not a new complaint against
> your stance).

What other intellectual pattern would you suggest is NOT similarly flawed.

Platt

P.S. Thanks for the gratuitous insult about "twisted rhetoric."




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