Bodvar Skutvik (skutvik@online.no)
Tue, 3 Mar 1998 04:58:22 +0100
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:19:41 +0000
Doug Renselle wrote
> TLS,
> If you can, see the latest - March/April 1998 Issue of the New York
> Academy of Sciences magazine, 'The Sciences.'
> At least three items of interest for TLS here:
> "Unmasking Tradition," by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf on Sudanese female
> circumcision as a socio/cultural rite.
> "Initial Conditions - Rite of Shame," forward to the above article by
> The Science's editor Peter G. Brown. Brown broaches the actuality of
> many truths across different cultures and the tendency for humankind to
> lapse into, '...a paralyzing cultural relativism...' Here is a real
> world example of how MoQ solves a very difficult cultural problem.
> Also, in the same issue, in an article titled, "All Wet," about alcohol
> abstinence, there is a beautiful Rene' Magritte: 'The Raw Nerve,' 1960.
> (re: the Einstein Meets Magritte conference, 1995, where Pirsig
> presented SODV)
Doug.
The said magazine is not normally to be obtained at my nook, but
the "Unmasking Tradition" article sounded highly interesting (during
my absence I wrote a piece called "Tribal MOQ" (for the forum) that
may have a bearing on these matters). Can you possibly scan and mail
it to me? I can order it if not possible, but it takes ages.
I attach this re.your other message as well: Sorry, the portion of
your message concerning the "Lorenz transformation" must have
passed me by in its time. It was useful knowledge however and it's
great to hear that you are at work on a SOM/MOQ "transformation" too.
I'll be looking forward to see it "live". Animation means a video
sequence - or?
I wonder if Dave Thomas is still around. He is a wizard with
his "Adobe" paint box and would possibly be able to come up with an
artful diagram. So Dave, if you read this and recognize the need for
a connection between subject/object and the Quality world view,
sharpen your digital crayons.
Also Doug, I wonder if you have noticed my obsession with the
SOM-as-Intellect-of-MOQ idea? I find it a kind of transformation in
itself; a seamless knitting together of the two. Anthony doubts if
Pirsig would vouch for it, but I find it a natural consequence of the
original Quality "equation".
Bo
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