[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
I don't see it as belonging to "the West".  Maybe in the West  many 
more intellectual patterns have became cancerous and dominant.

[Arlo]
If all intellectual patterns are SOM, what is the "cancerous" element 
you speak of? Indeed, what was it that Pirsig lamented when the 
Sophists were run under by Plato? We certainly can't lament that 
intellect was infested with SOM, since intellect IS SOM. I suppose 
you could lament that intellect achieved dominance, but if that is a 
bad thing, why did Pirsig place it atop his moral hierarchy?

[Marsha]
"All one has to do"?  Right!  I'm not so stupid to fall for that kind 
of trickery.  Must you resort to such nonsense.

[Arlo]
Sigh. I suppose I should just "meow" and pretend that people don't 
write here what they do.

[Marsha]
If you do not like the intellectual level being an advancement over 
the social level, maybe you do not agree with the idea of evolution?

[Arlo]
Huh? Is today "opposite day"? Did I miss that?