[MD] What "moral revolution" is called for by the MOQ?

[pholden at davtv.com]

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

> [Platt]
> It figures.
> 
> [Arlo]
> What? That Arlo likes art? 

That Arlo likes amateur performers. 

> [Platt]
> By a moral revolution I thought he meant a broader understanding of the role
> social values played in keeping biological values like terrorism at bay. But, I
> could be wrong.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Ah, you mean like the Victorians and neoconservatives. I doubt that's what
> Pirsig had in mind. Otherwise, he'd talk about the "drift backwards to
> Victorianism" as a moral revolution. Which he doesn't.

>From Lila (24):

"Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and
social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to
become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the
biological level under control. Intellectuals have failed to understand the ocean of
biological quality that is constantly being suppressed by social order."

> The Hippies rejected both intellectual and social patterns, but confused
> biological with Dynamic Quality. That's the place to start.

By rejecting social patterns they created the nightmare Pirsig describes in
Chapter 24. (See quote above). If they could reject intellectual patterns
they would destroy the static level from which DQ can spring to a higher
understanding.  
 
> But I don't think tossing in a few lutes and drums would be a bad thing.

I've never been fond of noise.

Still at a loss as to what "moral revolution" Pirsig might have had in mind. 




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