[MD] Catching up to Pirsig

[MarshaV]

Hi Platt,

Mr. Brooks is a good man, the MOQ is a great world-view and Mr. 
Pirsig is a shaman and artist.  Thanks for posting this editorial.


Marsha





At 09:17 AM 4/7/2009, you wrote:
>All:
>
>David Brooks has a column in today's New York Times entitled "The End of
>Philosophy," parts of which might have been written by someone very
>familiar with the MOQ. For example:
>
>"Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers
>embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more
>like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating
>what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are
>linked and basically simultaneous.
>
>"As Steven Quartz of the California Institute of Technology said during a
>recent discussion of ethics sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation,
>"Our brain is computing value at every fraction of a second. Everything
>that we look at, we form an implicit preference. Some of those make it into
>our awareness; some of them remain at the level of our unconscious, but ...
>what our brain is for, what our brain has evolved for, is to find what is
>of value in our environment."
>
>The rest of the column continues in the same vein with typically liberal
>emphasis on the social values of co-operation, empathy and altruism.
>(Brooks who advertises himself as a conservative is really a closet
>liberal.)
>
>I think you may enjoy reading how close Brooks comes to acknowledging what
>we have known for years. His basic mistake is in the title, "The End of
>Philosophy." If someone would introduce him to ZMM and Lila he might well
>change the title to, "From a New Metaphysics a New Reality."
>
>You can get the column at:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html?_r=1
>
>Platt
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