[MD] Was Pirsig prescient or what?

[ian glendinning]

That's true Mark, but a point is still valid I think

 ... it boils down to the last line of Platt's Pirsig quote

"The paralysis of [The Western World / Europe / America / New-York] 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."

Unfortunately Platt is one of those I consider trapped by that
domination, and appears to see only non-intellectual pre-existing
moral patterns, cast in stone by US Conservatism.

What Platt ignores in "Pirsig's Prescience" is that the idea wasn't
entirely new with Pirsig, it has been around for millennia (as Wiliam
James records). The world has always been seen "in our time" by
commentators as "going to hell in a handbasket" for this reason.
Pirsig's originality was in the MoQ framework, and in writing a decent
book or two to widen awareness of that fact.

Ian

On 11/3/06, Squonkonguitar at aol.com <Squonkonguitar at aol.com> wrote:
> Pirsig was talking about new York.
> Mark
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