[MD] Was Pirsig prescient or what?

[Ron Kulp]

   I would venture to say that is why the MOQ is seldom accepted as
science or philosophy.. It seems mysterious to those who do not know of
it, to those in the know it is where logical conclusion meets reality,
"Quality" and that seems to be the problem how can you argue a concept
that you can not define? Wait, Quality seems to be a "living word"
everchanging and indefineable, formless form.. Hmmm
 This truly is the "church of reason"! Now, if I could convince you all
to practice kung-fu,....and carry lightsabers

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Subject: [MD] Was Pirsig prescient or what?

Hi All, 

Theodore Dairymple, writing in the Clarement Review of Books, began his
review of three new books (While Europe Slept, Menace in Europe, and
Londonistan) as follows:

"That Western Europe suffers from a state of general paralysis is a
truth too universally acknowledged to require much reiteration. Slow
growth and high unemployment; an aging and shrinking population;
scientific and cultural irrelevance to the rest of the world; a large,
unassimilated alien population much of which is hostile to the very
countries into which it has immigrated-these are just a few of the
problems that Western Europe not only fails to solve, but even properly
to recognize."

Pirsig wrote in Chapter 24 of Lila:

"What seemed to allow this deadly night to descend was that the
intellectual patterns that were supposed to be in charge of things, that
should comprehend the threat and lead the fight against it, were
paralyzed. They were paralyzed, not by any external force, but by their
own internal construction, which made them unable to comprehend what was
happening.

"It was like watching the spider waiting while the wasp gets ready to
attack it. The spider can leave any time to save its life but it doesn't
do so. It just waits there, paralyzed by some internal pattern of
responses that make it unable to recognize its own danger. The wasp
plants its eggs in the spiders body and the spider lives on while the
wasp larvae slowly eat it and destroy it.

"Phaedrus thought that a Metaphysics of Quality could be a replacement
for the paralyzing intellectual system that is allowing all this
destruction to go unchecked. The paralysis of America is a paralysis of
moral patterns. Morals can't function normally because morals have been
declared intellectually illegal by the subject-object metaphysics that
dominates present social thought."

Was Pirsig prescient or what?

Best,
Platt
 
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