[MD] -elitist ideas

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:


> [Platt]
> You belie your objection to betterness by the very beliefs you express which
> I presume you consider much, much better than the alternatives since you
> express them with such certainty. Anyway, even my cat, like a bacterium,
> knows when "It's better here than there." And for all we know, so does and
> electron. 
> 
> [Case]
> My statements are my statements. I represent them as nothing more or nothing
> less. I know what I think is better for me and mine. Personally, I think the
> fact that you are willing to ascribe not just value but value judgments and
> sentience to single celled organisms and electrons is clear evidence that
> Pirsig overestimated his audience's powers of discernment.

"What the organism learns about its environment can be expressed in the simple
phrase, 'It’s better here' or 'It’s not so good here.' " Konrad Lorenz, zoologist
and Noble Prize winner -- obviously someone of "low powers of discernment."

Yeah, right.
  

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