all reasonable people,
I read ZAMM in the mid eightees and was immediately impressed and
affected by the style and content of the book, which I believe was
perhaps the first ever attempt to seriously understand the power and
limitations of reason - an area of great interest for me ( why ? I
dont know the reason !). I expected much more on this in LILA which
I read some eight months back - the book was a disappointment in that
comtext and i knew that P had written a book with an attempt to
ignite the (dwindling?) "moral force" of western intellect and
philosophy (assuming that there is anything like "moral force"
acknowledged by the west). But the western culture puts very high
value (and now the rest of the world following) on science and
technology as the ultimate in human evolution and accomplishment,
and any philosophy or metaphysics that does not contribute to this
technological advancement is quickly and viciously attacked,analysed
for any inconsistencies or contradictions (which is all they look for)
and thereby pronounced dead. And in MOQ , apart from Quality , another
UNDEFINEABLE term Dynamic Quality has been added. So even if the book
is technically flawless, it doesnt quite serve the purpose because
agreed upon reason (logic)cannot deal with undefinable terms that have
nothing to do with technological advancement. Besides that, any new
idea or proposition must be fitted into some "ism" or "ology"
according to western intellect or it is insignificant trash.
So i was skeptical about MoQ but after i started posting in this
forum ( a fool stepping in where angels fear to tread ? i asked myself) ,
i realised that MoQ may have a future after all, because of its
general purpose design. Western intellect is currently on a high horse
after its (intellectual?) victory over communism , and still
celebrating. We think nothing is wrong when we are successful.
Its only when the conditions become unbearable that we look for
answers beyond our built in and acquired biases and prejudices.
Meanwhile, anyone that says otherwise is "unreasonable".
So i think that if we examine the process of reason itself, we
stand a better chance of overcoming the limitations of reason.
One facet of reason that became reinforced as a result of posting
here is :
One man's cup of tea is another man's cup of poison,
One culture's reason is another culture's absurdum.
To be continued...
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