From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 06 2005 - 10:08:04 BST
I was going to put up a post about rhetorical and philsophical rules
of engagement in MoQ-Discuss and decided it was time to stop beating
around the bush.
Time to break some eggs ...
Ian suggests these truths to be self-evident ...
(1) MoQ is Pragmatic, Atheistic and Evolutionary
(2) MoQ intends to be a fundamental unifying view of the whole world,
what's in it, what it means, how it all works and interelates. A
complete metaphysics in so far as that is pragmatically possible.
(3) MoQ intends to change the world for the better, by being an agent
of evolutionary change, by providing that view and sense of values at
the level of individuals and what they can and should achieve.
(4) MoQ achieves this by providing framework that places the
individual in the whole world, notwithstanding any pre-defined social
and cultural structures (of what is good, right, known, true) without
having to threaten those structures which currently comprise
society(ies) and culture(s).
(5) MoQ places aspects of the individual in relation to the world,
above any other socially constructed concepts, and in doing so
emphasises aesthetic "oriental" enlightenment over western theistic
traditions.
Ian adds further ....
(6) Anyone who buys 1 to 5 above is presumed to be interested in
fleshing out practical detail, and promoting a philosophy they support
to a point where it empowers enough of the population (including those
in positions of social power) that the evolutionary benefits can
accrue in the world.
(7) Anyone who rejects the above is presumed to be peddling an
alternative philosophy that conflicts with the one Pirsig and Pirsig
scholars have propounded and is, temporarily at least, a drag on the
former, even if they are "right" in the long run ;-) In which case
they should have faith in the MoQ as suggested, that the truth will
out itself by a process of evolution anyway.
A time to choose ?
Megalomania rules OK
Ian
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