From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 16:34:23 BST
Hi David,
> dmb says:
> Let's try a completely different approach. .....
> I won't go into
> detail about the connection between dreams and myths, but let me assert
> their intimate connection with a single pithy phrase; myths are public
> dreams and dreams are private myths. (I forget if it was Campbell or Jung
> who said that.) With this in mind, I think we can see that there is not so
> much a mythology of science as a mythology ABOUT science. And what I see in
> our culture is very far away from the depiction of scientists or science as
> the saviours of the world. Quite the opposite....
>
> What Pirsig trys so hard to tell us in ZAMM is that we ought not feel
> alienated by technology or science. In SODV he tells us that scientists are
> not passionless or cold, but creative artists. And the MOQ tells us exactly
> why we should honor and embrace the intellect as a higher form of morals and
> values.
>
> Does that make sense?
Yes it does, a great deal of sense, which is why I think our disagreements are over-rated. I
particularly liked the phrase about dreams and myths, that 'rings my bell'. Given your interest in
Jung, wouldn't you agree that our culture's relationship to science contains a deep ambivalence, and
that these contrary myths, of light and dark, are ways in which society is 'compensating' for what
has happened since the scientific revolution? Just as the 'madonna/whore' complex results from an
unintegrated anima?
Sam
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