[MD] The relativity of the MoQ

[X Acto]

On 24 Aug 2009 at 11:12, X Acto wrote:

> A good MoQ arguement to follow, and I invite Platt in on it, is this:

Thanks for the invite.

> IS a culture that values intellectual quality vs. one that does not, truly superior
> even if that cultures intellectual level destroys and undercuts it's social level?

No. Pirsig makes this clear in Chapter 24 of Lila:

"In the battle of society against biology, the new twentieth-century 
intellectuals have taken biology's side. Society can handle biology alone 
by means of prisons and guns and police and the military. But when the 
intellectuals in control of society take biology's side against society then 
society is caught in a cross fire from which it has no protection,"

> IS a intellectually destructive society
> superior to
> a socially oppressive society?

A socially oppressive society would be an intellectually destructive 
society. Current case in point: North Korea. Rephrase the question?

Thanks for asking, Ron.

Hello Platt,

 So you think western american culture and mid east Islamic culture
are pretty much the same in that they are both intellectually destructive?

interesting