[MD] Politics and Change

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

      [Platt]
> > Where do you get the idea that I favor abandoning
> > intellect? It's SOM intellect
> > attempting to guide society that Pirsig says is
> > flawed. Don't you agree?
> 
>      Sure I agree, but Ian said:  "science the
> appointed
> > intellectual pattern" - not all possible intellects
> for ever."
> 
>      And you, Platt, responded, "So you claim
> intellect has changed in the short time Pirsig wrote
> those words?  
> 
>      So, you do recognize that intellect has other
> possibilites, other than SOM. 

Sure. That's what "Lila" was all about.

> These other
> possibilites reflect the creativity of intellect. 
> Its' dynamic connection.

Right. But other than "Lila" I have yet to see a break from the 
SOM-based scientific worldview intellect. Have you?

I'm still looking for the intellect that answers Pirsig's challenge:

"So today we have as a result a threory of evolution in which "man"
is ruthlessly controlled by the cause-and-effect-laws of the universe
while the particles of his body are not. The absurdity of this seems
to be neglected." (Lila, 11) 

I'm also looking for the intellect that unites science and the humanities, the
practical with the beautiful.

Any suggestions?

Platt






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