[MD] The China Syndrome

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On 14 Oct. Platt Holden quoted LILA:

> "But the Metaphysics of Quality states that practicality is a social
> pattern of good. It is immoral for truth to be subordinated to social
> values since that is a lower form of evolution devouring a higher one.

The MOQ sees TRUTH as an intellectual pattern value and in this 
context it is synonymous with OBJECTIVITY - not merely truthfulness - 
and was what arrived with the Greeks - as SOM - thus the 
intellect=S/O is affirmed again, again and AGAIN, but this discussion 
won't touch the issue any more it believes that there is a MOQ without 
it. My antagonist from old - Paul Turner disappeared after Pirsig's letter 
of 2005 that confirmed the SOL (At times I miss Paul's understanding, 
but then it was what resulted in his withdrawal and opening an 
impenetrable blog) DMB tried for some time to hold the fort, but is a 
lesser MOQ scholar than Paul and has now withdrawn to his 
academical studies and obviously believes that "radical empiricism" is 
the way for MOQ's introduction. But that will never happen Academy 
IS SOM and like China swallows all invaders and makes them 
Chinese (hope it doesn't anger Khoo?) the SOM absorbs the MOQ - if 
it ventures inside academy through the front door. Exactly what has 
happened to Anthony McWatt's Ph.D. It made it past the guardians for 
the very reason that his definition of Q-intellect is the woolly "anything 
goes".  If our academicians had been "trojan horses" i.e. playing along 
to get inside but then springing the true MOQ in their faces, but as said 
it's the China Syndrome.          

Bo