[MD] Barbarians & Hippies

[Platt Holden]

> Platt Holden quoted “The Bible”, Chapter 29, verse something or other


So now you mock Pirsig just to get in a dig at me? Strange.


> "Sometimes it's degenerative negativism, where biological forces are
> driving it
 This contrary stuff can become a tiger-ride where you can't
> get off and you have to keep riding and riding until the tiger finally
> throws you and devours you.  The degenerative contrarian stuff usually
> goes that way. Drugs, illicit sex, alcohol and the like."
> 
> And then observed:
> 
> “The last sentence describes the behavior of many hippies.”
> 
> Ant McWatt comments:
> 
> Platt,
> 
> The last sentence you quoted also describes the behavior of many
> right-wing politicians and commentators.  Being too static can lead to
> biological degeneracy as well.

Yes, but Pirsig associated drugs specifically with hippies, not right-
wingers. Describing hippies he wrote, "The 'blowing of the mind' was 
important"

Best regards,
Platt