[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Mary]
Perhaps later on I'll have the energy to explain why I don't believe 
in "Intellectual bashing" in the way Arlo seems to think we all do - 
even though this should be obvious, but is 'obviously' not.  A 
hint.  The arguments I've heard so far of how it is that myself and 
others in agreement with me are 'anti-intellectual' are actually 
unwittingly anti-intellectual.

[Arlo]
One needs only a short visit to the archives to see the reasons 
people "support" the SOL. A fifth-grader could deduce this stuff. I 
do not think Bo, by the way, is "anti-intellectual" (in some senses 
of the term), I think Bo fixes his gaze on the unfettered supremacy 
of the Euro-American cultures above the hordes of inferior "social 
level" peoples of the world (I won't waste time doing anything more 
than pointing out here his ridiculously sophomoric attempts at 
casting Christianity as "intellectual" in contrast to Islam as 
"social"). Platt, however, is inarguably "anti-intellectual" and 
champions a regression to social dominance. For Platt, all that 
matters is every evil, every ill, every problem, every malady, all 
can be laid squarely at the foot of the evil "intellectual level". 
The "intellectual level" is simply Platt's Great Bogeyman. (Take away 
the SOL-revision, and the Bogeyman dies.)

I do not think you, and Marsha, are "anti-intellectual" in this way. 
I do think you remain hopelessly mired in the classic-romantic 
division of ZMM, unable to see that the very thing Pirsig has tried 
to overcome is the very thing you are unable to see past. Where Platt 
gazes back to the dominion of social authority, you and Marsha gaze 
forward into the mists of "art". But, as I said, what you miss is 
that Pirsig's union of classic-romantic, the entire "root expansion 
of rationality" that he so carefully and beautifully constructed is 
negated entirely by trapping "intellect" forever the stranglehold of SOM.

But you don't have to convince me. If you think the SOL has value, 
hey all power to you. You can argue why you think it has more merit 
than Pirsig's MOQ until you are blue in the face. You won't mind, of 
course, if I tune that out, as I find no value whatsoever in the 
SOL-revisions Bo has proposed. I'll stick with Pirsig on this one.