[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[MarshaV]

On May 11, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [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:
I understand intellectual patterns to be built on the SOM premise.  
Some will stay valid, some will become irrelevant or, indeed, harmful.  
Those intellectual patterns that lose their validity will fall back into oblivion.  


> 
> [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:
Your statement was in the same category as "Every schoolchild knows."  It's an insult, and I 
would prefer not to play that way.  So meow away if you think that wins you intellectual points.  
I will just ignore you, or stop playing.   


> 
> [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?

Marsha:
Maybe I misunderstood, but it seemed you were defending the social level from being 
called inferior to the intellectual level.  

 
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