Hi Bo, Jonathan:
Bo:
> I am as said dead tired of pointing to this being the STARTING POINT of the
> MOQ. Pirsig called his new point of departure "Value", but I agree with you
> that "Meaning" may be as meaningful - "Nirvana" isn't bad either -
> inspired by Scott I jokingly suggested "Bias" - the point is (and now I am
> dead serious) that it becomes a metaphysics of whatever people figure the
> innermost reality (To Killerblade it would be a "Bollocks" :-) Yet, Quality
> is the best.
Whoa. Hold on there. I must be missing something really big. The
starting point of the MOQ can be "meaning?" Or "Nirvana?" Or
"Bollocks?" In other words, the starting point can be whatever you want
to be, whatever turns you on?
Here all along I've been under the illusion, apparently, that the starting
point of the MOQ was Morality, that is, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Doesn't Pirsig make it clear that "meaning" (intellectualizing) is a
secondary phenomena, derivative from direct experience of a morally
ordered, value-laden, Quality universe? Doesn't the fact that Pirsig
concludes that Lila has Quality reflects her goodness, not her undefined
meaning, whatever that means?
Either I've misinterpreted you guys or Pirsig or the meaning of
"meaning.". Please tell me how I've gone wrong. When Bo says, "Yet,
Quality is the best" isn't that the STARTING POINT of the MOQ--moral
judgments--this is better (or worse) than that?
Confused in the U.S.,
Platt
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