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

[Platt Holden]

> [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)

Pirsig tells why:

"Phaedrus thought that a Metaphysics of Quality could be a replacement for 
the paralyzing intellectual system that is allowing all this destruction to 
go unchecked. The paralysis of America is a paralysis of moral patterns. 
Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared 
intellectually illegal by the subject-object metaphysics that dominates 
present social thought. These subject-object patterns were never designed 
for the job of governing society. They're not doing it. When they're put in 
the position of controlling society, of setting moral standards and 
declaring values, and when they then declare that there are no values and 
no morals, the result isn't progress. The result is social catastrophe." 
(Lila, 24)