[MD] Politics

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ron Kulp <RKulp at ebwalshinc.com>:

> 
> Chris:
> >  In connection to the discussions regarding Politics and stuff that
> has been
> > going on here lately I thought I'd ask a question, forgive me if this
> had
> > been asked and discussed to the end before, but: From a MOQ
> perspective,
> > what is the goal of politics? I mean, what would a MOQist say that
> politics
> > should strive for?  The Goal then, not why it's there, that's quite
> obvious,
> > but the goal.
> 
> Good question. My answer is precisely the same as Pirsig's:
> 
> "My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the 
> world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's
> all. 
> God, I don't want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of 
> social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality
> out. 
> These can be left alone for a while. There's a place for them but
> they've 
> got to be built on a foundation of Quality within the individuals
> involved. 
> We've had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural
> 
> resource without knowing it, and now it's just about depleted.
> Everyone's 
> just about out of gumption. And I think it's about time to return to the
> 
> rebuilding of this American resource -- individual worth."
> 
>  -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
> 
> In other words, the goal of politics is to encourage individualism.
> That's 
> all. 
> 
> Regards,
> Platt
> 
> 
> Platt,
> If I may add, that individualism by itself does not focus on the society
> That produces it, in fact Individualism  by itself promotes a type of
> psychosis, I think what Pirsig means is investment Of the individual in
> Their society, that they care and contribute to it not leave it in
> The dust to pursue individual goals which may or may not include society
> At least not purposely. 
> -Ron

Ron:
The historical evidence proves that nothing has contributed more to society
than individuals pursuing their goals in a free market. 
 -- Platt
  




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