From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 21:16:56 BST
Hi Sam,
> I thought people might find it interesting. Particularly the "it's not
> financial capital, it's social capital. the u.s. in this sense has zero
> social capital" which I think links in closely with Pirsig's point (so long
ago!!!) about a natural american resource that seems to have gone down the
plughole.
Yep, this reminds me of what Pirsig said in ZMM: Phædrus remembered a line from
Thoreau: "You never gain something but that you lose something." And now he
began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he
gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had
lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena
of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and
wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal
magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an
enemy of it.
Arlo
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