[MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.

[Platt Holden]

Hi Marsha,

> At 10:37 AM 12/12/2008, you wrote:
> 
> >[Ron]
> > > I would say that a "true" MoQ teacher does not "teach" but provides
> the
> > > climet and the atmosphere
> > > for the individual to realize itself.
> >
> >Yes -- another reason for thinking of the intellectual level as the
> >"individual" level, the current high point of moral evolution, laying
> the
> >groundwork for the advance to the next level of art.
> 
> Greetings Platt,
> 
> How would this quote fit into your intellectual-level-as-individual 
> point-of-view?
> 
> "While sustaining biological and social patterns
> Kill all intellectual patterns.
> Kill them completely
> And then follow Dynamic Quality
> And morality will be served."
>      (LILA, Chapter 32)

This reflects what Pirsig said near the beginning of LIla -- that writing a 
metaphysics is a degenerate activity. But he went on to say that not 
writing a metaphysics was just as degenerate as writing one. "Purity, 
identified, ceases to be purity." So while we acknowledge a mystic reality 
of no intellectual patterns and thus no levels (as in the passage you 
quote) we have to "settle for being something less pure." My individual 
level point-of-view, like the MOQ itself, is being less pure. 

Platt