[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
I don't get where there is a dismissal of the East?

[Arlo]
If the "intellectual level" is nothing but SOM, and this is justified 
through detailing the rise of intellect over society in the 
Greek-European trajectory, then this places squarely "intellectual 
level dominance" solely on cultures informed through this trajectory, 
i.e. "the West". All things "West" then, including oddly 
"Christianity", become morally superior (i.e., "intellectually 
derived") to all other cultures still rooted in inferior "social 
patterns". All one has to do is look at the posts of the SOLists to see this.