[MD] Analogy..what do we mean?

[ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR]

[Marsha]
When someone makes the blanket statement  "it's all an analogy" with all the finality of a question well answered, inquiring minds aren't as easily satisfied.

[Arlo]
I don't think its "inquiry" that drives unease with this answer, but an inability to understand the inherent incompleteness of symbolic systems, and THAT is a product of S/O thinking. It is Phaedrus' bewilderment that the Chairman missed Plato's comment. The Chairman missed it because it violated his S/O expectations about the completeness of language. It is why Pirsig realized that his MOQ, like any and all symbolic systems, had to be a finger pointing at the moon. To think otherwise is simply to repeat the Chairman's mistake, and to miss entirely what Pirsig is saying.

"This entire description of the [MOQ and its levels] is just an analogy."

"What?" he says again, then loudly, "It is the truth!"

"Of course it's an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that."