[MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

[markhsmit]

Andre, Mary and Mark,

Mr. Pirsig is an American (Sorry Magnus for the cultural insensitivity)
Philosopher and I believe that Lila was intended to be an explanation of
this American synthesis as it is found in America, where the Asian Minded
migrated east, the Victorian Minded migrated west, and both clashed and
combined in Turtle Island.

I found a real interesting snippet somewheres on the web, A Cherokee site,
on this subject, that described it this way:

A common misconception is that European culture invaded America and wiped
out Native Tribal culture, but closer to the truth is that European and
Native American culture combined to create a new and unique synthetic
worldview.

Pirsig points this out in Lila and celebrates it and shows how we need to
balance our lives better by refuting the emphasis upon the
Victorian-centric apparatus of the giant as the ideal.

In other words, the synthesis of east and west is real, except in academia
where Indians are objects to be studied or government where they are
subjects to be controlled.
HI John,

This may be true about Lila, I know that Pirsig said that ZAMM was not much
about Zen, but it was.  If one wants to understand a Western interpretation of
Eastern philosophy, there are many better places to look, where this is
explained with much more knowledge.  MoQ is a very narrow method
for looking at reality at least as more and more structure is placed on it.
I feel it does have some Eastern influence but perhaps only 
superficially (imho).  Of course, any book can be interpreted in many
ways, and the more one knows about Eastern philosophy the more
one can make the connections in Pirsig's writings.

The great thing as you say, is the combination of world views which is
a product of the ease at which people travel and exchange information.
This has never existed before, so it could be said that, (contrary to the
belief that nothing ever changes), because of technological
advances, there is an opportunity for a high level philosophy which
combines similarities in East and West, and blends in the differences.

Mark


John
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