Hi Marty:
I think you'll find in Chap. 22 of Lila that Pirsig faults intellectual control
of society because intellect, based on SOM, has "no provision for
morals." He also points out that communism and socialism, programs
for intellectual control of society, ultimately fail because they do not
make provision for Dynamic Quality.
Here's how Pirsig summed up intellect's shortcoming:
"From the perspective of subject-object science, the world is a
completely purposeless, valueless place. There is no point to anything.
Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Everything just functions, like
machinery. There is nothing morally wrong with being lazy, nothing
morally wrong with lying, with theft, with suicide, with murder, with
genoide. There is nothing morally wrong because there are no morals,
just functions. Now that intellect was in command of society for the first
time in history, was this the intellectual pattern it was going to run
society with?"
If you've ever wonder why intellectuals put such a high value on
"tolerance," Pirsig's explanation is devastatingly accurate as opposed
to the mushy, mindless justifications you hear on campus and from the
pulpit.
Platt
>
> If Pirsig is right about the levels, than capitalism and it's by-products
> are on the social level. Since the intellectual level is of a higher moral
> value, the social (the economic model) should be controlled by the
> intellectual (the ruling government body), right? Since capitalism is
> primarily structured, in the big picture, to provide maximum share-holder
> value for the owners, than the guiding moral input must come from somewhere
> else, such as the ruling, law-making body. The MOQ seems to call for the
> higher static pattern to rule the lower. Since this doesn't seem to be
> occurring with a high degree of success, than it is our responsibility, on
> the intellectual/governing level, to rectify it. If governments have not
> met their responsibility in this area, than those governments should be
> changed to be more responsive.
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