[MD] Pantheism as Seen by the MOQ

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Worshippers of Mother Nature in the church of environmentalism would 
do well to ponder the following passage from Pirsig's MOQ:

[Arlo]
Sometimes you are so blinded by your zeal to post your pet quotes, 
you miss the irony that they actually support the very thing you 
think you are attacking. Aside from the moronic conflation here, and 
the always insipid attempt to paint environmentalism broadly as a 
"theism", your quote serves the notion that the lack of connectedness 
in modern society is a result of "theism" (separating "man" not only 
from his environment but denying interconnectedness in toto), as 
opposed to "pantheistic" thinking. The "scientific intellectual 
culture" of "millions of isolated people" stems from the S/O bent of 
Western Culture, a view that "man" is somehow forever "outside", an 
observer, a dis-connected isolated thing- the opposite view from 
those your deceptive rhetoric tries to attack. If you are going to 
use your pet quotes, at least take the time to make sure you understand them.

"I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all 
strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of 
all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, 
fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this 
country. We've been out of it for so long I'd forgotten all about it." (ZMM)