[MD] Pirsig the Prophet

[MarshaV]

At 10:29 AM 8/20/2007, you wrote:
>Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:
>
> > Hi Platt,
> >
> > Okay, you are interpreting RMP as suggesting there should be greater
> > enforcement of criminal laws and an increased disciplining of the
> > youth, to deter violence and out-of-wedlock births, "by means of
> > prisons and guns and police and the military".  And you agree with
> > this suggestion.  Right?
>
>No. Enforcement of criminal laws "by means . . ." etc. Obviously you don't
>discipline kids and stop out-of-wedlock births with guns. As you said,
>education is key, along with nonviolent pressures, to increase the strength
>of social values.
>
> > Do you think there is anything else that might be done to decrease
> > violence and out-of-wedlock births?
>
>As said at the outset, the establishment must be convinced of Pirsig's
>analysis of the problems for change to occur. We are doing our small 
>part here,
>but it's a long, hard road.
>
>Platt

Platt,

I think I'm a philosophical anarchist with a big emphasis on the 
individual.  At least I am leaning in that direction (at the moment, 
anyway).  I don't trust "social values" or public authority.  But I 
do believe strongly in education.

Marsha