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

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Bo]
It sounds as if you regard the multi-strata 
intellect as wrong, I wish you were right, but 
I'm afraid it's dogma: Aretê (and the Native 
American version of it) the original good 
intellect, then SOM as a faulty strata and 
finally MOQ as the correct intellectual strata.

[Arlo]
I don't regard a multi-strata intellect as wrong. 
I've said many times I regard the levels as broad 
strokes, with finer and finer gradations (in 
complexity and kind) all the way down. As such 
I've come to regard the MOQ as "fractal". Viewed 
from a certain distance, the four levels make a 
distinct pattern, but as one zooms in, one sees a 
recursion of pattern that, among other things, 
makes demarcation (or absolute boundries) impossible.

But here you say something that runs counter to 
what I thought you had been saying. Namely, that 
Arete was "good intellect". I had thought you 
placed Arete firmly as social Quality. If you are 
saying that Arete was a pre-S/O intellectual 
pattern that was usurped/replaced by S/O 
intellect, we may be close in agreement. Given 
this, as you suggest, the pre-Socratic Greeks and 
the Amerindians had a "good intellect". The Greek 
tradition was hijacked by S/O metaphysics (as per 
ZMM), while the Amerindian intellect was never given dominance over society.

As for the "politically correct" bruhaha, it runs 
both ways, but it only ever bothers most people 
when its "those others" doing it. One's own PC, 
or one's own party's PC, is typically either 
silently accepted or actively promoted while the other's is condemned.