Ant McWatt (ant11@liverpool.ac.uk)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:40:33 +0100
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:49:59 PDT Theo Schramm
<theoschramm@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As we are officially unmoderated I will enclose my reply to Jonathan and
> Bo which didn't make it through last time. I was going to enclose a few
> words to Ant and yet each time I tried it became more negative. Suffice
> to say that if you read my reply here and my initial post again you will
> see that your accusation of confusing biological quality
> with Dynamic Quality completely misses the point.
I'll re-read your initial post again Theo to see whether or
not does.
> Furthermore claiming that
> intellectuals find it hard to perceive that police etc can have a
> positive effect in controlling the biological level is just plain
> ludicrous.
Some intellectuals, I have met over the last ten years, are
subject to this criticism. When Pirsig wrote Chapter 24,
I would guess that he specifically had in mind some of the
liberal thinkers from the sixties and seventies. Though it
wouldn't be fair to apply such a criticism to all liberals,
I certainly wouldn't call it a ludicrous idea.
> One wonders if you just felt the need to share with us
> your correspondence with Pirsig no matter how irrelevant
> it was.
Yes, I think that criticism can be levelled at some of the
quotes from my e-mail ("In nothingness there...) but I feel
that people interested in Pirsig's work would rather have
these quotes than not. They are shared in good faith. I
certainly appreciate any such unpublished Pirsig quotes
myself from other people (such as Bodvar and Doug Renselle)
as they can often give a fresh angle to a difficult
problem.
Speak to you soon,
Ant.
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