[MD] re, fellow european-Bodvar

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hi Bo, 

It's baffling that many who purport to understand the MOQ cannot see 
that Pirsig's flat out assertion that "It was this intellectual level that was 
screwing everything up" identifies the intellectual level as SOM and not 
as a benign level consisting of "the collection and manipulation of 
symbols." I mean, how much evidence is required to prove your point?

The immune system of academic types is indeed powerful. 

Best,
Platt
 




On 16 Apr 2010 at 9:03, skutvik at online.no wrote:

> Platt, Horse, All. 
> 
> Right you are Platt. It's too much swishing of old tea (philosophology) 
> around this place. But the reluctance to clean out the cup and fill it with 
> the fresh Quality stuff is that the SOL lurks at every other page (leaf). 
> For instance your often cited "social nightmare created by intellect", its 
> more than plain that the 4th. level must be SOM for it to cause this 
> condition. "Manipulation of symbols" can by no conceivable means 
> undermine social value.