[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Do you deny that "they" refers to capitalists? If so, who does "they" 
refer to that you mentioned in previous statements?

[Arlo]
I'll answer your one pointed question.

The "they" referred, as Pirsig pointed out, to "right-wing politicians".

 From my original post.

"The whole "bash the Academy" crowd, which pretty much defines 
right-wing politics, uses the same rhetoric generation in and 
generation out. They labeled Pirsig a "radical professor" fifty years 
ago, and still use that tired phrase with each new round of nonsense."

When asked about being branded a "radical professor", Pirsig replied 
"But that was just right-wing politics." Indeed.

You may interpret "right-wing politicians" as "xenophobic wing-nuts" 
if you like, but given the fact that Pirsig himself is a "capitalist" 
and yet also a "lifelong democrat", I hardly think you can make the 
"right-wing politician=capitalist" substitution.