[MD] Reading & Comprehension

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Mary. All.

30 May you said:

> I-SPOV's:  The set of patterns of value which state that subjects and
> objects are the fundamental reality of the world and Quality is at best
> a property of subjects or objects and at worst nothing more than an
> opinion. 

Agree, just adding the unnecessary that "quality...nothing more than 
an opinion" follows from being subjective.    

> I-SPOV's say it is bad to accept a belief just because an authority
> figure (political, religious, or otherwise) tells you so, since the
> only things which can be known as fact as those things which can be
> proven by observation or experimentation.

Exactly.    

An observation however: What you describe is intellect in its SOM 
capacity, while intellect as the 4th. Q-level has the same basic "policy" 
but it's claim to be "the fundamental reality" is taken over by  MOQ, 
only intellect's control of social values is left and fully backed up by the 
MOQ. 

My worry - and why I fight the Buchanan faction - is that intellect's 
control of society  can't be carried out if the MOQ is allowed into the 
intellectual level. The MOQ can't control social value, only the level 
that is "out of society", namely  intellect can do that. This making 
intellect the home of the MOQ destroys intellect and may lead to the 
same situation described in LILA page 312)  but now with intellectual 
deterioration the issue            

    It's this intellectual pattern of amoral 'objectivity' that is to 
    blame for the social deterioration of America, because it has 
    undermined the static social values necessary to prevent 
    deterioration. In its condemnation of social repression as the 
    enemy of liberty, it has never come forth with a single moral 
    principle that distinguishes a Galileo fighting social repression 
    from a common criminal fighting social repression. It has, as a 
    result, been the champion of both. That's the root of the 
    problem.  

Bodvar