[MD] Tit's

[Peter Corteen]

Hi Bo, you said:

 If we read ZAMM by the understand that it describes intellectual value
> emerging out of its social origin it's clear that the pre-SOM
> existence  (not limited by SOM) is what Pirsig calls Aretê.


To live an impeccable life, a life of excellence: I am far away from that.
Even my ability to comment with authority in these emails is limited by the
knowledge of my personal history that I act inconsistently and, even
according to my own criteria, immorally. To live with Aretê, as I  imagine
it, would be to act with spontaneity i.e. without consideration - 'you lose
your push when you beat around the bush'; such a way of being may be
possible if the presence of God or gods was accepted without question; as
soon as you question then follows dilemma and hesitation. To question the
existence of God is to engage in subject/object metaphysics.

Bo, I doubt you are suggesting that we revert to a wholly social mentality;
subject/object logic had an advantage over unquestioning servitude to a
myth; that is why evolution selected it.

-Peter