[MD] Democracy

[Platt Holden]

> > [Chris]
> >> Right, so, anyway. The way I see it a MOQ guides society should be
> one
> >> where
> >> the social level is restructured to service the intellectual level, and
> >> as
> >> I
> >> will look at the intellectual level as more or less "The Quest for
> >>  Knowledge" (facilitated by a sense of individuality to be sure, it
> >> wouldn't
> >> work without it)  - I would roughly suggest a society that is regulated
> >> so
> >> that social patterns never are allowed to subjugate peoples
> intellectual
> >> development AND where all people have the possibilities to expand
> their
> >> intellectual capacity should they whish to do so.
> 
> [Platt]
> > What regulations would you propose to accomplish these goals?
>
[Chris] 
> Well, I'd start out with the basics. Schooling, Medical care and other
> basic 
> needs that people have to have fulfilled in order to all have a chance to
> develop their intellectual capacity need to be ensured and regulated.
> These 
> things can of course not be allowed to be subject to the social pattern 
> called the free market.

I presume you are familiar with Pirsig's comparison of socialism to the 
free market. Also, do you see government regulations as social patterns?