Hi RISKYBIZ9@aol.com, Fintan, Squad
FINTAN:-
>...the Greeks only got the time to develop their
>intellectual pursuits when they had amassed enough slaves to facilitate
their indolence.
>[snip]
>To ignore the plight of the slaves one must become HEARTLESS.
>The intellect when divorced from the heart is like a ship without a
rudder.
>Here in Ireland we call such persons HEADCASES.
>Reason without a rudder goes round and round in circles without getting
anywhere.
RISKYBIZ9 (does he have a name?):
>...MOQ contains the answers here too, but they don't point to our
slavery to the
>poor. Live our lives right. Encourage intellectual freedom ,which
requires
>physical and economic freedom too (note I say freedom, not comfort ).
Enjoy
>and cherish the Dynamic. Be moral.
>
Pirsig was surely wrong in placing Intellect at a higher moral level
than Society.
***Intellectual freedom from social responsibility is immoral. ***
Pirsig was also wrong to place Social values above Biological values.
Societies which valued flag, country and national wealth over human life
sacrificed millions of young men in WW1 and sent children down the
mines.
I agree with Fintan, there has been FAR TOO MUCH intellectual
masturbation here.
Masturbation is fun (that's my excuse), but hardly moral.
Jonathan
PS. Diana, my vote for next month is MORALITY
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