[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hi Krim
> 
> You are right they both contest our conceptual framework.
> They are both right that we should. Pirsig is better because
> he gives us an alternative that is neither authoritarian or
> new age 'wet'. Secularism is constructed due to the fear of what
> being able to contest concepts and metaphysics entails and makes
> possible. Secularism is a form of defence. The problem is like
> most security meassures it limits our freedom. I say: so be it, let's
> recognise that secularism is a set of values that are contestable.
> Let's be free, & not pretend we are not free to contest concepts,
> values and metaphysics and recognise that politics is politics.

Good points. In other words, keep an open mind. We still have much to
learn about how the world works.




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