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[Platt Holden]

[Marsha]
> In recent years our understanding and control of the external world have
> increased enormously.  There has been a remarkable increase in material 
> progress.  I grant you that.   Yet there has not been a similar increase
> in 
> human happiness.  There is no less suffering in the world.  There are no
> fewer problems.  If anything there is more suffering and more unhappiness
> than ever.  I think there is a basic flaw in the way we understand the 
> world.  And that is where I believe the MOQ's value lies.  It's in a new
> understanding of the world.  Where science is certainly beautiful, it is
> changing the conceptual framework that the West most needs.

Hi Marsha,

Yes -- and yes again. It's the inability of science to say anything 
scientific about values that is the basic flaw, resulting, as Pirsig put 
it:

"Each individual in his cell of isolation was told that no matter how hard 
he tried, no matter how hard he worked, his whole life is that of an animal 
that lives and thinks like any other animal. He could invent moral goals 
for himself, but they are just artificial inventions. Scientifically 
speaking he has no goals." (Lila, 22)

Except according to science we do have one goal: replicating ourselves.
Oops. My mistake. It's not "we." It's our genes who have a one track mind.  

Platt