Anders Nielsen (joshu@diku.dk)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:54:06 +0100
> To me there are three glaring examples in 'Lila' of the social level
> being aware of the intellectual level:
>
> 1. Pirsig's extended discussion on the battle between the Zuni priests
> and the brujo. The social immune system was 'aware' of the new
> intellectual pattern threat to their control by the brujo's new ideas.
Wasn't this more a case of resistance to influence by Dynamic Quality? (the
whole latching idea).
> 2. Pirsig's brief mention of the same thing happening to Joan of Arc.
ditto
> 3. Pirsig's brief mention of the same thing happening to Galileo. This
> example certainly juxtaposes the Catholic Church condemning Galileo for
> his intellectual threat to their non-intellectual flat-earth-centric
> traditional social patterns. Many within the Church then and now
> condemn intellectual freedom of belief and/or thought.
ditto
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