From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 12:29:50 GMT
Hi Jon,
Excellent insights, Jon. I especially relate to what's intellectually
"fashionable," these days, the "doubt of God's existence" and "the
existence of Truth itself." It's amazing to me the lemming-like character
of academics. So very few have the kahoons to challenge static leftist
political views much less the defects of SOM.
Best,
Platt
> It's easy to blame faith. What's not so easy is the very real possibility
> that *lack* of faith is the real danger bearing down on humanity's future.
> Not only is it fashionable to doubt the existence of God, but the existence
> of Truth itself. We lost belief in Quality a long time ago, Pirsig
> suggests. The teachers of Quality--the Sophists--are considered the enemies
> of Truth. But Pirsig suggests that they were actually something else.
> Teachers--and champions--of Excellence. Although these teachers and their
> methods have been systematically vilified, humans continue to harness what
> they taught. Quality. Perhaps Truth deserves what the post-modernists are
> trying to do to it. I hope not.
>
> As for our current religious terror problems, I have no doubt that the
> overwhelming power of capitalism and technological superiority will crush
> this last, dangerous gasp of religious terror. Could take ten or twenty
> years, but not much more than that. The future will only permit those who
> practice religion peacefully. Capitalism and technology will always triumph
> over religious fundamentalists. Thank God.
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