[MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

[X Acto]

Bo:
The point is, what Andre points to, that Pirsig is an enigma. The 
Phaedrus of ZAMM who I feel had the original Quality Idea (that set 
him apart from everything else by his vision that the present 
mind/matter "metaphysics" is a stage - called intellect - of a still greater 
scheme) was replaced by the LILA author who wavered between the 
original vision and a more conventional mind/matterish view of 
"intellect" a mind where ideas reside, SOM one idea, the MOQ 
another.

Still more enigmas. The ZAMM author was in fact the same post-
hospital Pirsig who wrote LILA  only - as I understand it -  a few years 
older. ZAMM was written in the late sixties/early seventies and 
published in 1974 while Lila was started immediately afterwards. Why 
this marked change? And the still more "conventionality" in "Lila's 
Child"?      But then the sudden "Phaedrus" appearance in the Paul 
Turner letter where he rejected the mind-intellect, but regrettably - to 
keep his "enigmatism" -  introduced the "language-intellect" and the 
non-S/O oriental ditto. .    

Pirsig:
The real mystery, the real enigma, is how mature, objective, trained scientific 
observers can blame their own goof on a poor innocent platypus.

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