[MD] SOM's defect comes home to roost

[markhsmit]

On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:17:58 AM, "Arlo Bensinger" <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
[Platt quotes Pirsig]
"What makes the free-enterprise system superior is that the socialists..."

[Arlo]
Well, if that's your "proof" that capitalism "has 
a provision for morals", then reason must too, since reason created capitalism.

[Mark]
Reason did not create capitalism, Quality did.  How can you put the endeavors
of man outside of Quality?  At its essence Quality is expressed by us human
as a search for something better.  Why did capitalism come about?  Was Quality
taking a nap, and man snuck in and did the dirty deed?  When I hear this I hear
that man somehow is outside of Quality, outside of Nature.  This is a bit
arrogant.