[MD] What is Zen?

[John Carl]

Hey Mary,

I got some unfinished business elsewhere I think, a reply pending to your
and my earlier  dialogue, but I just wanted to pop off the top of my head on
this one of yours with dave:

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mary <marysonthego at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi DMB,
>
> If you would place the MoQ no higher than the Intellectual Level, and in
> fact, place it squarely within it, then you will need to explain exactly
> what the Intellectual Level values which sets it apart "off on purposes of
> its own" that differ in Value from the Social.
>


Simply put:

Intellectual patterns value truth, social patterns value  celebrity.





> You will also have to
> explain how the MoQ, which disparages SOM and finds it anathema is supposed
> to fit within the same set of patterns of value.
>
>
Simple, its more true.  Just as social patterns compete ultimately for
popularity, so do competing  intellectual patterns strive to be more true.

And I know it's confusing because intellectual patterns also strive for
popularity, but when doing so they are committing an MoQ "immorality".  This
makes sense, and thus is more true than SOM - which doesn't even believe in
"truth".





> Screaming is unnecessary.
>
> Best,
> Mary
>
>
but giggling is mandatory,

John