Hi Horse:
Here's a good example of how there can be more than one
interpretation of Pirsig. You interpret the passage as being a comment
about capitalism. I interpret it to be a comment about people who think
they are holier-than-thou, i.e., superior to others because they believe
in an undefined "humanitarian" morality.
The old adage, "We see what we want to see" has certainly been
validated on this site.
Platt
> Just a quickie to show that Mr P. isn't entirely convinced that all things capitalist are best.
>
> "There are so many kinds of problem people like Rigel around, he thought, but the ones who go
> posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without
> any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the morals to make
> someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves. It doesn't matter what the moral
> code is - religious morals, political morals, racist morals, capitalist morals, feminist morals, hippie
> morals - they're all the same. The moral codes change but the meanness and the egotism stay the
> same."
>
> R.M.Pirsig LILA Chapter 7
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