[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> > [Krimel]
> > That was Pirsig's postmodern position not mine. Surely, you are not
> > disputing Pirsig.
> 
> [Platt]
> Cite a reference, please. 
> 
> [Krimel]
> Ok I tried not to use any big words but these are quotes:
> 
> "English departments have been packed by deconstructionists who insist that
> Shakespeare is no better than rap music." Platt's Boy Barone.
> 
> Ok, this is a hard one from Wiki but you can skip it if it hurts your head:
> 
> "Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism,
> and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages
> of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in
> meaning when read in light of the assumptions and absences they reveal
> within themselves." -Wiki
> 
> More Wiki but littler words this time:
> 
> "Postmodernism is a developing set of perspectives that call into question
> the Western modernist assumption that Truth or an objective reality can be
> possibly known... Deconstruction is a term which is used to denote the
> application of postmodern ideas of criticism, or theory, to a "text" or
> "artifact", based on architectural deconstructivism." Wiki
> 
> Now moosh this together and you get something like this:
> 
> "But if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it
> becomes possible for more than one set of truths to exist. Then one doesn't
> seek the absolute Truth.' One seeks instead the highest quality intellectual
> explanation of things with the knowledge that if the past is any guide to
> the future this explanation must be taken provisionally; as useful until
> something better comes along. One can then examine intellectual realities
> the same way one examines paintings in an art gallery, not with an effort to
> find out which one is the 'real' painting, but simply to enjoy and keep
> those that are of value. There are many sets of intellectual reality in
> existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others, but
> that we do so is, in part, the result of our history and current patterns of
> values." RMP - Lila

Where does Pirsig say truth or objective reality cannot be known? 



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