[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi Platt. 

5 May you said to Horse. 

> I can't find any place where Pirsig says that S/O is the dominant
> pattern among many at the intellectual level. I agree that the
> intellectual level contains all sorts of intellectual patterns, but
> all are characterized by the S/O division, just as all social patterns
> are characterized by group identity, all biological patterns by DNA,
> and all inorganic patterns by energy. It's the amoral S/O intellectual
> level that dominates society, causing problems. It's the dominance of
> amoral S/O over society that must be replaced by a new, more inclusive
> value-oriented paradigm. Isn't that the message of the MOQ?

This the crux of the matter, the issue that no-one claiming to be a 
MOQ adherer can't circumvent without accepting SOL interpretation. 
(but alas the anti-solists abandon logic or normal reasoning) You have 
for a long time used this part of Pirsig's teachings to forward your 
version of the SOL, while I have used other parts for mine (Mary some 
other) but only in my recent dialogue with Arlo did I realized the 
enormous strength of your argument. Page up and page down in LILA 
Pirsig harps on intellects undermining social control which has resulted 
in nightmarish conditions in many big Western cities. Only intellect's 
OBJECTIVE OVER SUBJECTIVE attitude that makes morals into 
subjective irrelevancies can work this ill effect. I need not repeat all 
you fine arguments, but great show.

Bodvar