[MD] Think like a baby

[X Acto]

Platt,
To view things as a baby and how Pirsig mentions, is to drop the stereotypes
we hold and take a fresh new look. Like looking at the positives of socialism
communism and capitalism and combine them to create a society that actually 
DOES value the individual, valuing individuals other than YOURSELF is
socialism you know. That is why I have a hard time understanding your dichotomy
of value of the individual in society yet despise anything that has to do with it
. You exalt the diversity of individuals yet despise multiculturalism
when what you really despise is moral relativism, Pirsig gives us
a way to make moral judgments without the typical stereotypes
that hinder us from making Quality judgments or the paralysis
of relativism.
 I'll save you the effort of the 
Lila quote.

In the veldt it's the individual that gets eaten first. United we stand, divided we fall.
Safety in numbers.

The idea is to look at the Quality in everything Platt, this is what babies do.








 



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From: "plattholden at gmail.com" <plattholden at gmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:49:34 AM
Subject: [MD] Think like a baby

All:

There's a book out called "The Philosophical Baby." The Boston Globe 
has an interesting review at:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/26/inside_the
_baby_mind/?page=full

If you read it I think you'll be reminded of Pirsig's thoughts about the 
world as seen by babies in Chapter 9 of Lila. Perhaps you'll recall these 
words:

"This, Phaedrus thought, was why little children are usually quicker to 
perceive Dynamic Quality than old people, why beginners are usually 
quicker than experts, why primitive people are sometimes quicker than 
those of "advanced" cultures."

To perceive DQ -- isn't that our goal? The article suggests how we just 
might be able to do that more often.

Regards,
Platt 

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