[MD] Where does DQ end and SQ begin and SQ end and DQ begin? It's all bananas isn't it?

[david buchanan]

David Thomas said to Arlo:
Is it possible that RMP's quality ideas as presented so scramble our understanding of experience that we're worse off, not better? Have you ever considered the possibility that Pirsig's take is wrong in total?


dmb says:
Oh, please. You're only confessing your own confusion, Dave. Have a little humility. It simply isn't possible to know if Pirsig is right or wrong unless you understand WHAT he's saying. 
Imagine a person with no background in physics saying the same thing about Einstein's theory. Don't you think that would be a ridiculous and absurd thing to say UNLESS that person knew a hell of a lot about physics and understood Einstein's theory? I think your comments are ridiculous and absurd in exactly that way. I mean, what makes you think you're qualified to make such an assessment? Do you have any background in philosophy at all? If so, you're keeping it well hidden.