[MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi, Ian Glendinning -

> Michael (whoever you are)

I kinda wonder that a lot, and not at all, myself. It's interesting to 
wander around.

>> Almost every discussion of Pirsig, the totality of his thought, and the 
>> MOQ
>> (all three of which are separate) that I've seen eventually resemble the
>> Church of Reason intellectualizing criticized so adeptly in ZAMM.

> I don't interact with many of the interminable academic arguments these 
> days

A lot of it seems to be about niceties of classification, and I wonder where 
it goes. Maybe it's just a natural function, like a tree making leaves (or, 
as Alan Watts would have it, "leaving")?

> those on the "reason" trip will eventually grow out of it.

As I've said elsewhere in a different way, perhaps Bob is reason's subtlest 
trickster. Getting that indefinability in at the root is pretty tricksy. It 
always makes me see a Planck length-time - can't get your pincers in it 
without ruining it. : )


MRB
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