[MD] What is SOM?

[Ian Glendinning]

Bo Gav,

... or in Gavs words, Bo
"SOM cannot be equated with the intellectual level. QED"

Exactly.
Ian

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:22 AM, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> hiya,
> comments below
>
>>
>> > gav: where are we when we are in SOM?...we are in the
>> world of western
>> > industrial alienation. we are divorced from the ground
>> that gives meaning
>> > to our ideas, or to be more accurate SOM obfuscates or
>> devalues this
>> > ground of being.
>>
>
>  bo:
> Yes, but the MOQ has no "Western industrial
>> alienation" level so
>> the question still stands. Pirsig says that the MOQ does
>> not abolish
>> the S/O distinction so it must have a place inside the MOQ,
>> and -
>> as in my well known opinion - it's the intellectual
>> level, everything
>> points to such an interpretation.
>
> gav: SOM is/was the dominant 'operating system' or paradigm of western intellect.
> in the east i think we cannot say this....but surely they have intellect bo.
> therefore SOM cannot be equated with the intellectual level. QED.
>
>
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