[MD] Social Darwinism

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> [Platt]
> Metaphysics of randomness? Not on your life. A metaphysics of purpose would
> be more like it. 
> 
> "Since a metaphysics is essentially a kind of dialectical definition and
> since Quality is essentially outside definition, this means that a
> 'Metaphysics of Quality' is essentially a contradiction in terms, a logical
> absurdity.

But he created it anyway. 

> It would be almost like a mathematical definition of randomness. The more
> you try to say what randomness is the less random it becomes. Or 'zero,' or
> 'space' for that matter. Today these terms have almost nothing to do with
> 'nothing.' 'Zero' and 'space' are complex relationships of 'somethingness."
> - Lila, Chapter 5

Irrelevant to a metaphysics of purpose.  

> [Platt]
> Unless and until you accept Pirsig's explanation of evolution, your version
> of the MOQ is more than stripped down. It's naked as a Jaybird. 
> 
> [Krimel]
> As long as you regard Pirsig as an authority on evolutionary theory you as
> are going to continue to sound like the Jaybird's cousin, the
> swallow-crested dimwit.

I'll take his authority of yours any day. You just parrot conventional theory.





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