[MD] experience

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Kevin]
PS: Arguments about whether this or that perspective on the MOQ is the right one
and whether this or that approach leads back to SOM are not about Quality. 
They are about SOM, imo.

[Arlo]
So in other words, in a discussion forum about the Pirsig's Quality, it is "SOM"
to talk about that which follows this path and that which does not? 

You're wrong, though. This conversation was particularly about Quality. It's
about whether or not Quality is the "source of all things", or only comes into
play when "man" enters the picture. If "man is the measure of all things" was
said in the purest way of idealism, then nothing existed until "man" stepped
onto the scene, maybe as recently as 56,000 years ago if we discount "early
man".

I think this fundamental issue has profound ramifications for the way we
interact in the world.