ROGER FINDS THE NEW LOCALE (Chicago) AWAKENS THE INNER DEMONS AND THE PILLARS
OF HELL BEGIN TO SHAKE!
subtitled: ANOTHER DEFECTOR QUESTIONS THE SOCIAL / INTELLECTUAL HIERARCHY
Squadies:
I asked if a thot like "I want a cookie" is superior to (for example) the US
government and the constitutional protections. Platt indirectly challenged
this stating that "The most trivial of a person's thoughts are more valuable
than any government or religion."
At first I bought this, but........ It is absurd! The Socio-intellectual
pattern of freedom of speech and thought is MUCH more important than thinking
you want a cookie or that you want to shoot a school kid.
Donny has made some great arguments that it isn't one's thought (Robinson
Crusoe thoughts) that determine an IPoV, it is an IPoV in society shared
between others. Several members,and Pirsig himself, have commented that
intellectual patterns are absolutely floating in a sea of society.
Putting these concepts together, doesn't it make more sense to say that:
"The Social Pattern That Values Freedom , Truth, and Clarity is Superior to
Other Social Patterns."
Could Pirsig have confused "Freedom of Thought" or "Value of Thought" with
"Thought"?
Don't get me wrong, I see that valueing freedom of thought and truth and
science, requires the elevation of the right to think ANY THOUGHT.... even "I
want a cookie". But we are guilty of confusing the Social Right to think
Freely with the thought that was thunk.
Pirsig was wrong. Insanity and thoughts of malice and trivial thoughts aren't
the highest level. In fact these are low value socio-intellectual patterns.
The highest level socio-intellectual pattern is to value logically consistent
free ideas.
Primitives valued the Strong
Victorians valued the Holy or the Charismatic
The Enlightened value the Truth
These are social or socio-intellectual patterns. There are three levels , not
four!
Roger
(Oh my God, What have I said!)
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