Re: MD Neo-Nazi Racism and the MOQ go together like peanutbutter and bro ken glass. Sandwich anyone?

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 14:01:38 BST

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    Hi All,

    > On 21 Jun 2004 at 10:35, Platt Holden wrote:
    >
    > Pirsig:
    > "What makes the free-enterprise system superior is that the
    > socialists, reasoning intelligently and objectively, have
    > inadvertently closed the door to Dynamic Quality in the buying and
    > selling of things. They closed it because the metaphysical structure
    > of their objectivity never told them Dynamic Quality exists." (Lila,
    > 17)
    >
    > Platt:
    > To all egalitarians, communitarians and other radical left-wingers
    > who think the MOQ supports their collectivist social values--read it
    > again and weep. Intellect sides with free enterprise.
    >
    > msh says:
    > What Platt doesn't understand is that Pirsig is speaking about a
    > theoretical "Free Market" that doesn't exist.

    Nonsense. Pirsig writes:

    "People, like everything else, work better in parallel than they do in
    series, and that is what happens in THIS FREE ENTERPRISE CITY. When things
    are organized socialistically in a bureaucratic series, any increase in
    complexity increases the probability of failure. But when they're
    organized in a free-enterprise parallel, an increase in complexity becomes
    an increase in diversity more capable of responding to Dynamic Quality,
    and thus an increase of the probability of success. It's this diversity
    and parallelism that make this city work. And not just this city. Our
    greatest national economic success, agriculture, is organized almost
    entirely in parallel." (Lila, 17) (emphasis added)

    By "this free enterprise city" Pirsig is speaking about the existing New
    York, not some theoretical Utopia.

    Wouldn't you think that in a site dedicated to Pirsig that contributors
    would actually read what he wrote once in awhile?

    Best,
    Platt
       

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