[MD] the apple of my eye

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ron Kulp <RKulp at ebwalshinc.com>:

> 
> [Platt]
> The good old days when good and evil were easily recognized seems
> preferable to the current slow decline of Quality.
> 
> [Ron]
> Is'nt the knowledge of good and evil what got us all in trouble in the
> first place?
> {metaphorically} when the apple of knowledge was eaten the world split
> in two.
> when knowledge of quality emerged, it emerged intellectually as dualism.

Don't think so. Pirsig explains good and evil beginning from the ground (inorganic)
up. It's built into the fabric of the universe if you accept Pirsig's thesis that
the world is a moral order. But, he could be wrong. I happen to think he's right.



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