[MD] Orthodoxy

[Krimel]

[Arlo]
There is no "orthodoxy", there is Pirsig's ideas, and those who find value
in them, and those who do not and either reject or offer something they
propose as better. No one accepts Pirsig's ideas "because Pirsig said so"
(orthodoxy), but because to date nothing better has been offered.

[Krimel]
Orthodoxy does not refer to, for example, "God's Word" or "Pirsig's ideas"
or any primary text. It refers to interpretations and practices that arise
from such as these. Orthodoxy mean right thinking and its typically
contrasted with heresy. Orthodoxy results from power; either the power of
numbers, as in more of us think this way or that way; or from
institutionalized authority. You would have to be blind not to recognize
that the MoQ is drifting from the former to the latter.
There certainly seem to those among us who claim to speak for Pirsig or who
claim that their "right understanding" of him is endorsed by him. The
Quality versus Dynamic Quality issue is one example of this.
It also tends to be the case that defenders of orthodoxy acquire or seize
the authority to excommunicate, shun, deride and cast into the outer
darkness those who challenge them.

I really was just being sarcastic in using the term and because I thought
most would have forgotten my preferred term "the AWGIs." But I think I'll
stand with the term orthodoxy for the time being.