[MD] Pirsig the Prophet

[MarshaV]

At 04:35 PM 8/19/2007, you wrote:
>Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:
>
> >
> > Platt,
> >
> > How would you suggest people be guided, or whatever, to a social code
> > of higher value?
> >
> > Marsha
>
>Marsha,
>
>That's a tall order, but the place to begin is convincing the leaders of
>the Establishment -- school administrators, teachers, college 
>faculties, judges,
>lawyers, politicians, social workers, journalists, military leaders, 
>the clergy
>artists, bureaucrats and others with influence -- that society plays 
>a vital role
>in controlling biological values. Pirsig put it this way:
>
>"Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral
>and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, it 
>is struggle
>to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's 
>role in keeping
>the biological level under control. Intellectuals have failed to 
>understand the
>ocean of biological quality that is constantly being suppressed by 
>social order."
>(Lila, 24)
>
>Platt
>

HI Platt,

Are you saying that you would try to convince the Establishment that 
'it takes a village'?

Marsha