[MD] Multiculturalism scam

[kieffer odigaunt]

Hi Arlo,

2009/1/1 ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>

> [Arlo]
> Meditation. Yoga. Zen. All attempts to quiet the mind and free one from the
> intellectual, social, biological and inorganic attachments that define the
> broad species of "man".
>
> But I think it is important to point out that these are not "chains" we can
> ever live without. These patterns are dialogic, if you will, in that they
> afford as much as they constrain behavior. We are bound by these chains,
> but it
> is these chains that also enable us, provide the context for which we are
> agenic. All too often we see the "ills" of these attachments, but we forget
> that without them we'd be far far far less "free" than we are. This is, for
> me,
> one of the contributions of the DQ/SQ-Yin/Yang metaphor of the MOQ. Whereas
> others glorify DQ and near villify SQ, I think the MOQ shows us how their
> particular dance drives the evolution that has set us "free". As Pirsig
> said,
> too much Dynamic brings chaos and too much static brings stagnation. We are
> bound by culture, but without this unavoidable boundedness we would be in
> worse
> shackles, the shackles of biological necessity. We are forever suspended in
> language, but this suspension affords us far greater freedoms to act than
> we
> had before.
>


Right on Arlo - and thanks for the reply.

-KO