[MD] Science and the MOQ

[Platt Holden]

> If you wouldn't ignore 1/2 or more of Pirsig, you'd see that taking 
> him in whole breaks out of your ridiculous "collective-individual" 
> duality. It represents a synthesis. Which is why you can quote Pirsig 
> all you like, nothing I say is in disagreement with him on this point.

Taking Pirsig whole you would see he breaks out of your ridiculous 
"assimilated collective mind" and "bounded proprietary experience" duality. 
The basic theme of Lila is the constant struggle of the individual -- 
whether Lila, the brujo or Phaedrus -- against stifling, static cultural 
patterns -- whether represented by Rigel, priests or psychiatrists. To 
ignore this thematic conflict and its resolutions is to be blind to the 
intellectual  illumination provided by the MOQ.