[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
As for the MOQ being anti-intellectual, it certainly is anti-SOM because SOM,
the current intellectual level, is defective. It "has no provision for morals."
(Lila, 22)  

[Arlo]
Right. The CURRENT intellectual level is dominated by SOM patterns.

"[Phaedrus] showed a way by which reason may be expanded to include elements
that have previously been unassimilable and thus have been considered
irrational. I think it's the overwhelming presence of these irrational elements
crying for assimilation that creates the present bad quality, the chaotic,
disconnected spirit of the twentieth century. ...

The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that
is, "quality free," has got to go. It's that "value freedom" that underlines
the death-force effect to which attention was brought early in the Chautauqua."
(ZMM)

[Platt]
Don't hold your breath for an intellectual level that admits that the world is
a moral order and that evolution was driven by betterness. 

[Arlo]
Pirsig's Metaphysics are one such pattern.

[Platt]
By and large, SOM stands unbowed despite Pirsig's best efforts. 

[Arlo]
More proof that those who chirp "SOM" the most are the ones who have no clue
what it means.

Subject-Object Metaphysics is a particular metaphysics that claims the primary
metaphysical distinction is "subject/object".

There is no one here who supports this. This "SOM" nonsense is simply a
rhetorical-dismissive device you think you can whip anyone who doesn't agree
with the SOL.