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

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Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo]
> I think SOLAQI is wrong. If intellect _is_ S/O, then what's the point of LILA
> where Pirsig describes intellect as "having a defect"?

MOQ intellect is a step above S/O intellect approaching the higher art level, but
still within the general level of intellect. You cannot tell if something has a 
defect unless you are outside that something looking at it. S/O intellect cannot
see or judge itself. An MOQ intellect, wherein value dominates, can. 

> Indeed, according the
> SOLAQI, we should EMBRACE S/O intellect as the most moral of the levels, second
> only to DQ itself. Is that what you get from LILA?

The most moral of levels is the level above intellect, the art level.

> [Platt]
> Nothing sad about the dichotomy of true/false.
> 
> [Arlo]
> No, but much sad about the dichotomy True/False.

What's the difference. Does capitalization make a different metaphor?





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