Marco, all
As usual, we all seemed to have wandered off the main point of
discussion which Marco introduced. So before it dies away completely
I'll make one more stab at a 4th principle.
> Basic principle: Better is Better.
> 1st Principle: Something is better than Nothing
> 2nd Principle: Alive is better than Dead
> 3rd Principle: Together is better than Alone
4th Principle: Some Qualities are better than Others
At first blush this seems not only to be simplistic, but just plain
silly. But for better or worse the role of the intellect within this
system seems to be to uncover and order all qualities, values, or
morals. And the single underlying "given" with which to do it is this
one. The process by which this is accomplished is neither simple, fully
understood, nor assured.
Pirsig
> The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like
> to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do. pg 102 - Pirsig,
> Robert M., Lila. An Inquiry Into Morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991,
> "Thought is not a path to reality. It sets obstacles in that path because when you > try to use thought to approach something that is prior to thought your thinking
> does not carry you toward that something. It carries you away from it." pg. 73
So that if there is a message to this madness, it is that as good as the
intellect is, it is still inadequate, still flawed. To help compensate
for the intellect's fallible nature it is necessary and helpful to make
sure that we are taking into account the broadest, most dynamic range of
experiences possible. We all have access to this fuller range of
experiences but most often discount them. It's just that we,
individually and collectively, have been so focused, for so long, on the
intellect that we have lost or not found our abilities to move beyond
it. And if this is not enough, we regularly revert to baser qualities of
the lower levels as the focus in our lives.
3WD
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