[MD] Democracy

[Platt Holden]

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

[Chris] 
> State the specific comparison you have in mind please.

"What makes the free-enterprise system superior is that the socialists, 
reasoning intelligently and objectively, have inadvertently closed the door 
to Dynamic Quality in the buying and selling of things." (Lila, 17)

[Chris]
> And as Bodvar pointed out before, the patterns are interrelated and are 
> pretty much never separated, and so the laws a government makes will be 
> social patterns, BUT, the social patterns can be formed by intellectual 
> patterns to best suit the intellectual level. 

So an intellectual pattern that forms a free market social pattern would be 
OK with you? 

Thanks.