[MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

[John Carl]

Platt,

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:

Good point, but I think a fixed system that promotes DQ, like capitalism
> and the MOQ itself, is better able to avoid disaster Or, if disaster
> occurs,
> DQ systems are likely to lead to a quicker recovery than static S/0
> intellect systems.
>


Platt, capitalism operates on the profit motive - that is a fixed static
system of value whereby individual corporate entities care most about their
own relative success - in a very competitively modeled framework.

By "competitively modeled" I mean the entire legal and regulatory matrix
which evolves out of cut-throat competion and thus perpetuates it.

Perpetuates a system far beyond it's ability to be anything like "dynamic"
ever again.

Thus, DQ is not being sought by capitalism.  I'd say by far the opposite.
 Self interest is the avowed engine of capitalism and the self as a source
of value is a false metaphysical premise to begin.

SOM, in case you've heard of it.

>
> You nailed it with the phrase, "govt/media complex" -- as great a danger
> to a free society as a military/industrial complex.
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Well, I owe that one to Savage - a fascinating guilty pleasure whereby I
alternate between being fascinated and appalled.

But one could as well call it, as John Gatto did, the education-media
complex.  When he attacked the modern American system of education, he also
roped in the fact of how much tv a kid watches compared to classroom time.

But in this day and age, is not education simply an extension of the
government?

An interesting time for me to be thinking about this stuff, my wife loaded
Orwell's 1984 into I-Tunes to play while she peels apples and bakes pies....






> I consider these last two paragraphs full of wisdom. In fact, it is wise to
> challenge intellect based on the S/O premise, as Pirsig has so ably
> demonstrated and as you have done in this thread..
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> Platt
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Woo-hoo!


A "platt-a-boy".

I live for those things.