[MD] Shouldn't we be, like, revolting ?

[Heather Perella]

> [Platt]
> Pirsig continues in the same paragraph...
> 
> [Arlo]
> Pirsig sums up.
> 
> "The end of the twentieth century in America seems to
> be an 
> intellectual, social, and economic rust-belt, a whole
> society that 
> has given up on Dynamic improvement and is slowly trying to
> slip back 
> to Victorianism, the last static ratchet-latch."
> (LILA)

SA:  I don't think this will be the same as falling back to some earlier time, unless we are referring to a certain tone or generalized theme.  What would a "slip back to Victorianism" mean?  I don't know enough about this.  Maybe you do.


cold,
SA