[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[Krimel]

> [Krimel]
> You could try the paragraph above. I know there are a few big words there.
> Try sounding them out. Notice the part about "Then one doesn't seek the
> absolute Truth." And the part about "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."

[Platt]
Those excerpts say nothing about truth cannot be known. You see things that
aren't there. I think they call that hallucinating. 

[Krimel]
I am neither an expert on nor an advocate for postmodernity but as I
understand it, the crux of the matter is that it challenges the idea that
Truth or and absolute reality can be known. That is exactly what Pirsig says
here, "Then one doesn't seek the absolute Truth." It would seem to be front
and center with his conception of Quality as fundamentally indefinable. It
is not that "truth" can not be known it is that "Truth" can not be known.

> [Krimel]
> This is a really like postmodern argument here coming from an English
> teacher... Is this starting to come together for you now? That last bit is
> the part that means that if HipHop floats your boat it's as good as
> Shakespeare. Especially, if you don't really care much for Shakespeare.

[Platt]
Try this to bring you back from Disneyland to reality. "The tests of truth 
are logical consistency, agreement with experience, and economy of 
explanation." (Lila, 8) If you don't get it at first, write it out 100 
times. Oh, I forgot. Writing is difficult for you. 

[Krimel]
He also makes it clear that there is not just one way to pass these tests.
Sometimes we grade on a curve and often we judge on purely aesthetic
criteria as in, "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."

Does it hurt you to find that Pirsig might actually be an evil
postmodernist?

I actually do have problems writing but they are motor problems. What is
your excuse?