[MD] to claim people had no "intellect"

[david buchanan]

dmb said:
Apparently, David T. has the idea that intellectual means "smart" and social means "dumb".

David T. replied:
Not at all. .., I'm saying the reverse of your take Dave. That really people at the social level were and are a whole lot more "intellectual" than give credit for and we would be well advised not the discard that knowledge overnight in favor of a half baked theory of quality.



dmb says:

Even as you deny it, there is still the implication that designating a culture as social is an insult to their intelligence. That's not what Pirsig ever meant by it. If you want to be insulted by that label, then it would be an insult to that culture's morality but only if that society asserted social level values at the expense of intellectual values in those cases where they conflict. 
The way you've construed it, Pirsig is just a racist who thinks everybody else is stupid and that, sir, is just hateful slander. Plus it's stupid and kinda creepy.




 		 	   		  
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