[MD] French ingredient in the soup of sentiments

[craigerb at comcast.net]

Arlo,
you said:
> Remember that the problems in consumption/production described in ZMM are > a result NOT of government interference, but of an SOMist-based free-market.

Do you have a citation for this statement?  It doesn't sound familar.
Craig 

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From: "Arlo J. Bensinger" <ajb102 at psu.edu> 

> Craig, 
> 
> Those are good quotes, but important to keep in context. The whole premise of 
> ZMM was that people were NOT seeing Quality (because of an SOM mindset), and 
> hence NOT making Quality decisions. The writing of ZMM was an attempt to alter 
> the dialogue, to effect change in the metaphysical underpinnings on which 
> "individual decisions" are made. Remember that the problems in 
> consumption/production described in ZMM are a result NOT of government 
> interference, but of an SOMist-based free-market. 
> 
> The "free market", as it were, is not only manipulated by "social patterns" of 
> governance and regulations. It as also constricted by the culturally-imposed 
> dialogic frame (mostly via language, but not exclusively so). For example, the 
> "green flash" described in Lila was "invisible" to Pirsig (and as such 
> incapable of being part of his "free choices") until his cultural lens shifted. 
> 
> In a mercantilistic dialogue, people's culturally-imposed value system places 
> higher value of "wealth" than "people", and so in a "free market" underscored 
> by mercantilistic dialogue, people are treated as nothing more than 
> commodities. The place to effect change, I agree, is in the dialogue. 
> Overcoming this mercantilisticly driven dialogue, and replacing it with 
> Quality, is still the major challenge we face today. 
> 
> In the meantime, as Pirsig said, tearing down a factory will only produce 
> another factory. We have to change the dialogue, and then true change will 
> occur. 
> 
> Arlo 
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