Roger,
I agree with your post and isn't it refreshing when someone (you)
around here seems to know what the fluck he is talking about.
I've always thought that characterizing political ideologies like
socialism as scientific intellectual patterns was horseshite, so I
especially concur with your argument that concludes:
ROGER:
"So, I suggest that socialism wasn't even close to scientific. It was
certainly philosophical, but in a dogmatic way that was the antithesis of
objectivity or empiricism or experimentation and theoretical testing and
revision. The goal was some kind of ill defined utopia (with the leader of
the revolution as the stand in for God)."
And except for the "immoral" part, which is a bit too MOQ for me, I am
also in full agreement with this:
"To now loop back to the title of the post, creationism is another low
grade, non dynamic, pseudo-scientific social idea dressed up as science.
Socialism and creationism are both science gone bad. Both are immoral, and
if Pirsig states otherwise, I think he is... (no, don't say it)... wrong."
According to Pirsig, the MOQ happily supports both creationism and
Darwinian evolution (presumably without contradiction). This is the MOQ
Enlightenment band-aid at work.
Glenn
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