Episodes Of Truth 17-24

Chapters 17-24, storyline and main philosophical points from Episodes of Truth By William E Justin available at amazon.com

17 THE PAIR OF OPPOSITES

18 REBEL YELP

19 THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

20 PENHOUSE VS THE 100,000 CHURCHES

21 THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE

---Ricky arrives in Hollywood to meet Mitch the contractor he’d met earlier —He meets the client, an intuitive senior named Rose

---Pop culture values are subappraised within the sibling value structures called the interior & exterior poles —Pirsig’s “static” & “dynamic” Quality —the pair of opposites as “the main event in RTA”

---Ricky goes to the paint store and hires a white kid named Tom as a helper on his Hollywood job

---The pathos of rebellion is looked upon from within the RTA conceptual structure —God & Creationism are explained using the prism of “mahaRTA”

---Ricky whips up his paint using proper RTA —He teaches Tom a bit about the right “viscosity of awareness” —Tom is bemused when Ricky sings original songs as they work .

---EIC censorship as a function of runaway Capitalism —The slow but eventual appendage of EIC to academia —Public TV as a function of the second precept of Holding Oneself Upright

---Rose brings lunch to the painter & his temp help —she thinks Tom is cute —she shows Ricky she is more then he expected

---The advocerial cross of rank scientism/fundamentalist mysticism/intellectualism/ sensuality is uplifted by redefinition within the RTA

---The storyline pauses as Ricky’s thoughts on utili-tarianism in Science are revealed

---Anthropology as the controlling agent in the various branches of science

--Rose adds more days work --Ricky drives Tom home --They return the next day --Rose proves to be remarkable --The job finishes, they all depart

---The four porches of The Buddha Structure

23 THE DOCTRINE OF FAIRNESS

---The third section of the storyline begins with Ricky working alone on a house on the sand at Newport Peninsula

---A Doctrine of Fairness is put forth via several “statements of truth” that reflect basic, self-evident understanding of normal phenomena

24 CALLING UP THE FUTURE

---Ricky works at the beach and mainly ponders community organizing and future innovation

---Social philosophy

22 LIGHT OF GOODNESS

--Portable heaven