In a message dated 7/8/02 10:52:59 PM GMT Daylight Time,
psytrancekid@yahoo.co.uk writes:
> --- SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated
> 7/8/02 6:51:25 PM GMT Daylight
> > Time, gavgc@hotmail.com
> > writes:
> >
> >
> > > Platt: "Quite bluntly, Pirsig says capitalistic
> > free enterprise is superior
> > > to
> > > socialism. To deny that is simply and utterly
> > wrong."
> > >
> >
> > Pirsig states that is more moral for intellect to
> > govern social patterns and
> > this makes socialism more moral than capitalism.
> > However, capitalism is more dynamic than socialism
> > at present.
>
> I think capitalism is greed, born out of biological
> conditioning. I don't know what is around the corner,
> but the anti-capitalist movement is not going away, at
> least not until capitalism is significantly different
> ... maybe some kind of 21st century
> anarcho-syndicalism.
>
> André
>
Hi Andre,
Platt and those of his ilk have been trying to beat socialists over the head
with the MOQ for years.
An intellectually directed society is by definition socialist in that an
intellectually directed society will repress biological patterns and support
intellectual patterns.
Capitalism is dynamic full stop and that means there are no guarantees
intellectual values will direct anything, and a good deal of evidence to
suggest that capitalism supports biological greed, fear, insecurity and
ignorance as you suggest.
All the best comrade (joke)!
Squonk.
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