[MD] On Pragmatism

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 16 Mar 2010 at 15:38, Matt Kundert wrote:

> 
> I wouldn't know how else to motivate you ill-taste of pragmatism.
> 
> > Wherever did get the idea that somehow I want turn Quality into a "weapon"?
> >  How would that even be possible?

An odd juxtaposition of metaphors -- taste and weapon. If I have an ill-
taste for pragmatism it's because I have a living memory of WWII 
combined with a more recent memory of Pirsig's critique:

"The idea that satisfaction alone is the test of anything is very 
dangerous, according to the Metaphysics of Quality. There are different 
kinds of satisfaction and some of them are moral nightmares. The 
Holocaust produced a satisfaction among Nazis. That was quality for 
them. They considered it to be practical." (Lila,29)

But words or ideas as weapons? I'll take words and ideas over 
government edicts at the point of gun any day. 

Platt