[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[Mary]

> [Arlo]
> 
> What has been interesting over the years is to witness the psychology
> behind this. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, Bo's SOLAQI
> seems to be an attempt to place "Western Culture" as the morally
> dominant worldview, and reduces all non-Western worldviews to
> "social". That is, "we" (Western cultures) are
> "intellect",  non-Western cultures are "just social", and so our
> superiority can be claimed. 

[Mary Replies]
Don't see it that way, Arlo.  Non-Western cultures are SOM-based too.  Just
as "guilty" of emersion in the subject-object paradigm.  There is no
difference, as you say too...

> The Buddha rests just as comfortably in
> semiotics as in gardening.

The MoQ is as SOM as SOM can be.  It can be nothing else.  It's not in a
higher level or a separate one.

> The MOQ is not a "burn
> down the universities" philosophy, it is a "reclaim the universities"
> philosophy. It does not condemn "science", it saves it. It does not
> dismiss rationality, but it expands its power. As DMB pointed out,
> the goal of the MOQ is beautiful science and intelligent art. 

It does this by explaining DQ in the SOM terms everyone can understand. 

> The SOL view offers us neither.

How so?

Best,
Mary