[MD] Was Pirsig prescient or what?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> 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.

I say you're trapped in SOM with your constand harping about the middle ground.
So there. 

> 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.

Pirsig's explanation of the decline is an entirely new idea, something
I didn't ignore in any way whatsoever. How do you come up with this stuff?

Platt




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