[MD] The Futile Quest for Academic Approval

[Steven Peterson]

HiAll,



> John said to Matt:
> Oh Pbbllllpt-t-t-t. to your "professional-looking argument"...
>


> dmb says:
> I think that's about right...


Steve:
It's such a wonder that academia isn't knocking down walls to get in on the
conversation.

I agree with Matt that for Pirsig to become of interest to academia, either
people interested in Pirsig need to get into academics and become important
by saying interesting things about what academia is already interested in,
or someone already important needs to get interested in Pirsig. How else
could it possibly happen? Certainly not through whining about being ignored.
Do you really think there is some anti-Pirsig conspiracy at work? Or
anti-new idea conspiracy? No one becomes important in philosophy or science
or anything else in academia by repeating old ideas (unless it can be done
in some new interesting way).

Best,
Steve