[MD] irony and socrates

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Platt

17 Oct.

Bo before :
> > Hitler was the least "intellectual" conceivable, the nazi movement
> > was social value's last stand  in the Western hemisphere according
> > to Pirsig in LILA something I agree totally with.     

Platt:
> I think it's well to remember that in the 1920's when Hitler came to
> power there were many "intellectuals" in the West who enthusiastically
>  supported eugenics, the idea that the human race could be improved by
> selective breeding and the discarding of undersirables. The Nazis took
> this idea to the extreme, but even today its remnants persist with
> government supported abortions at the beginning of life and
> restrictions on medical care at the end. 

Perhaps "intellectuals" can better be called scholars and there are 
scholars of all kinds. Religious for instance.

I have a sinking feeling of MOQ's beauty dissolving when (tried) 
applied  to various political movements. Any level's value is to control 
the former's value, that's the one sure hallmark.and this "forest" is 
easily lost among the trees. 

You are right, the race issue was widespread in the early twentieth 
century. From where did it emerged? Perhaps from Darwin's which 
was a scientific theory and thus intellectual, but Pirsig speaks about 
the "devouring" of a higher level by the lower and "Social Darwinism" 
must be such an immoral act.

Regarding abortion due to defects in the embryo is the same social 
value devouring intellectual value, scientific methods of detecting 
defect by various means misused by social value for its perfect 
individual. Abortion if the mother's life is endangered is pure 
intellectual value, but here are ways to twist and turn everything.

Bodvar