[MD] Mountain View

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting skutvik at online.no:

> The MOQ is the greatest philosophical 
> breakthrough since (fill in) HAD it just been understood, but the 
> sage himself failed at the critical point by making it an intellectual 
> pattern - an improved intellect. No static level can be improved. 
> Its grandeur rests on making SOM its own intellectual level. 

I agree with the first part of the first sentence, but not the second part.
After all, we have seen vast improvement in the social static level over
thousands of years, from feudal societies to democratic republics. To take
the MOQ out of the realm of intellect puts in squarely in the hands of witch
doctors who, as the suffering of humanity attests, have wrought great harm.
We have not progressed from huddling around fires in caves to modeling
weather patterns on computers only to have it all revert to dancing around
in circles imploring a sun god to stop global warming. Rather I see the MOQ as
occupy the top rung of the intellectual level, reaching out to bridge the gap
between intellect and art, much as Pirsig describes at the end of his SODV.
But, I could be wrong.

Best regards,
Platt

  

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