[MD] Social Intellectual

[craigerb at comcast.net]

"...a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values
over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not."
(Pirsig, Lila, p.311)

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[Craig, previously]
IMHO the 3 important questions that this quote raises are:
1) would a free culture that supports the dominance of intellectual
values over social values be superior to an authoritarian culture
that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values;
2) would a free culture be more likely than an authoritarian culture
to support the dominance of intellectual values over social values &
3) would a free culture support higher quality intellectual values
than would an authoritarian culture.

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[Andy]
> "authoritarian" means somebody
> is mandating adherence to static values by enforcing compliance with
> some set of static codes.

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[dmb]
> I sincerely wonder if there is such a thing as an authoritarian
> culture that supports intellectual dominance. 
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I demur. IMHO an authoritarian culture can be static or dynamic, 
support the intellectual over the social or not.
Originally I wanted to generalize Pirsig's statements about Capitalism &
Socialism, by considering free & authoritarian cultures. But now I see
this doesn't work.
What needs to be determined is what system has the highest quality
intellectual support. There's no shortcut.







Craig