[MD] CBC Ideas: Homo (Sapiens) Neanderthalensis & etc.

[Platt Holden]

> Marsha,
> 
> May I borrow your question:
> "Do you think people are only capable of changing t
> heir point-of-view if they are suffering?" for a story I
> am writing?
> 
> thanks--mel

Hi Mel:

For your story Pirsig offers an answer:

"f you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no 
evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Suffering is the 
negative face of the Quality that drives the whole process." (Lila, 29)

Platt