[MD] Teachings from the American Earth (Part I)

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Bo]
What is all this about American Indians' culture being non-S/O supposed to
prove? We know that the social level along with all levels below intellect are
non-S/O. If it is to indicate that they had reached a Quality-like meta-level
it's wrong, they were no different than any other "aboriginals" in this
respect.

[Arlo]
>From that standpoint of your SOLAQI, perhaps you are right. However, I (for one)
reject the idea that the intellectual level is S/O, as well as the implied
"everyone was stuck in the social level until white man's Intellect came and
set them free". This is not to say the reverse, that everyone lived in glorious
non-S/O worlds until white man's restrictive S/O enslaved them. I think one
possible key lies in the metaphoricity underscoring the metaphysics. To paint
very broadly, Greek-derived metaphysics located the "subject" as an external,
eternally apart, distant observer of the world (S/O). Eastern metaphysical
systems view the "subject" as an co-construct, not apart, active participant in
the world. And it was upon these layers of bedrock that intellectual
understandings of the world were constructed. The intellect of the Native
Americans (again painting very broadly), their emerging intellectual level, was
built on similar foundations. Although I can see why an S/O Intellect would
perceive everything apart from itself as inferior.