[MD] Zen

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo had quoted Pirsig]
> That's the best definition of you that's ever been invented.You may 
> think everything you say and everything you think is just you but 
> actually the language you use and the values you have are the result 
> of thousands of years of cultural evolution." (LILA)
> 
> [Platt]
> Except as Pirsig points out, an individual, like the brujo, is the 
> sole catalyst of cultural change. "A tribe can change its values only 
> person by person and someone has to be first." (Lila, 9)
> 
> [Arlo]
> Which is not in contrast to anything I've said, and when read 
> properly in the full context of ideas expressed in LILA only furthers 
> my point, that social participation is both agenic and structuring, 
> offers the affordance to follow DQ but at the price of constraining 
> responses. You'd know this if you'd actually read what I wrote, or 
> take Pirsig in full context, rather than using isolated one-liners in 
> knee-jerk response to further your S/O fallacy, even to the point of 
> trying to use on sentence of Pirsig to disprove another!

As if you don't use Pirsig quotes to support your herd mentality and ignore
those that don't.





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