Author: Laird Bedore

Here is a message snipped from the MoQ archives: Heather Perella spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com Thu Nov 2 11:50:38 PST 2006 Thanks Khaled, [Khaled] Also those who do think, give up when they can’t get any action to follow their critical thinking. This is a most excellent simple point. This probably encapsulates the intellectual level discerning the social level, Pirsig’s moral path, most completely. The haunting of this culture: to break the minds of the people, so, their will-power will break, too. As Arlo so well stated the borg will assimilate. As gav has pointed out using Pirsig terminology, the giant...

It’s no shocker that you can look around you and see an unlimited supply of shallow lives and shallow interactions. Shallow people doing the same little things day in and day out, complaining about their situation, and their redundancy, meanwhile holding onto it like a child holds a teddybear in the middle of a storm.

(A reply on slashdot regarding filtering software) Re: Censor Us! Our Poor Little Minds Can’t Handle It! I have the feeling your subject didn’t get quite enough attention. Censorship fulfills a purpose: It keeps our “impressionable children” from viewing things they “shouldn’t see”. It also keeps employees from looking at porn while supposedly working on their latest paperwork. If our children are _so_ impressionable, why does the trend not exist to impression them with self-discretion? If they are taught to choose between looking at porn or watching the Barney Lobotomy TV show, and they can think and act on their...