[MD] What "moral revolution" is called for by the MOQ?
Arlo Bensinger
ajb102 at psu.edu
Tue Mar 20 07:42:28 PDT 2007
[Platt]
If by elitist you mean someone who discriminates between good and bad
art, then proudly accept the label. I certainly do not consider my
amateur art to be as good as that of Tom Benton or Andrew Wyeth. In
fact, compared to them I'm awful.
[Arlo]
Who doesn't "discriminate", Platt? Are you suggesting that only
"approved" art enter the public sphere?
[Platt]
I notice you ignored the quote that described the role of social
quality in keeping biological pleasures in their proper place. Worth repeating:
[Arlo]
I'm not ignoring it. I said its clear what Pirsig had said about the
"moral revolution", since that is the topic at hand.
"The Hippie revolution of the sixties was a moral revolution against
both society and intellectuality."
"Phaedrus thought that this Hippie revolution could have been almost
as much an advance over the intellectual twenties as the twenties had
been over the social 1890s..."
"The revolutionaries of the sixties thought that since both are
anti-social, and since both are anti-intellectual, why then they must
both be the same. That was the mistake."
Whatever Pirsig said elsewhere, the "moral revolution" of the hippies
was against both society AND intellectuality.
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