[MD] Shouldn?t we be, like, revolting ?

[Andre Broersen]

Bodvar I think it is interesting that we arrive at completely opposite
conclusions regarding where capitalism and socialism lie as far as the
levels are concerned, and I wonder where, assuming you are correct, I went
wrong.
My reasoning went as follows: governments are social PoV's therefore I place
what they do ( eg distributing collected taxes) and allocating these  to
infrastructures, education, welfare, science etc etc by developing
policies,programs and allocating monies. These need to be thought through,
carefully planned etc etc. Does this then shift the activity to the
intellectual level? In this sense I may have misunderstood Pirsig when he
talks about the Intellectual level as "manipulating abstract symbols that
have no corresponding particular experience and which behave according to
rules of their own".
I fail to see the workings of government in my example given as an abstract
activity.
In the same way that a very serious chef writes a cooking book, develops a
course of study/ includes wonderful theories about nutritional values, etc
etc and promotes it as the next breakthrough in the science of balanced
culinair thinking. Does this belong to the Intellectual level?

I'm deliberately creating this contrast because I do want to learn about
this and it is sometimes in the ridiculous that you find the sublime .

Andre