[MD] Pirsig the Prophet

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Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:

> 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

Hi Marsha,

No. It takes understanding of the role of the social order in controlling
the ocean of biological quality "by means of prisons and guns and police and
the military." (Lila, 24)

Platt
  




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