[MD] Logos is not ergon

[Matt Kundert]

Logos (word) is ergon (deed).

Maybe that's why, Ron, you've always seemed to me to avoid pragmatism, which has at its heart the notion that our word is a deed.  As J. L. Austin once said, "our word is our bond."  One might deplore these ephemeral links holding up these magical towers in the sky called "culture" and "ego," like Andre, but without our word being a deed, an act with consequences, then all of this goes away--no computer, no books, no words, no thought, no humanity, no humans.  It all goes away once we become truly unbonded.

Various Eastern philosophies, and Western for that matter, may _on the surface_ suggest the betterness of such a thing, but they don't really.  As Steve said, the Buddha exists as well inside a sentence as anything else.  And Pirsig helps us triumph over such a silly notion as that the metaphysical illusion of culture and ego, ipso facto, mean they are purposeless fictions that should go away--everything has value.

There are many conversations to be had about what is most valuable, but without a doubt, the Logos was the Ergon.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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