[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Bo]
Is this a convoluted affirmation of the SOL or is it a rejection???

[Arlo]
It's a rejection. You know that. SOM is a particular species of 
intellectual patterns that derive from a very specific premise, the 
primacy of the Subject-Object duality. Patterns drawn from this 
premise compromise the body of patterns Pirsig refers to as 
"Subject-Object Metaphysics". The MOQ is a (new) species of 
intellectual patterns derived from a different premise.

It is as absurd to say "all intellectual patterns are SOL" as it 
would be to say "all social patterns are theistic", or "all 
biological patterns sexually reproduce".

[Arlo quoted Pirsig]
Now that intellect was in command of society for the first time in 
history, was this the intellectual pattern it was going to run 
society with? (LILA)

[Bo]
Right, how can the 4th. level have managed to rise on top of the 3rd. 
and - as is a MOQ tenet - regard society as "evil" in any other 
capacity than SOM?

[Arlo]
I'm not sure what you mean? Are you saying that its a MOQ tenet that 
all levels regard their foundational level as "evil"?