Platt,
Well I may not think you are ignoramus, I do think George Bush is ignoramus.
I am thus led to ponder Obi Wan when he asks "who is more foolish, the fool
or the fool who follows the fool" (hee hee)
>> 2)"Then he saw it. He brought out the knife and excised
>> the one word that created the entire angering effect
>> of that sentence. The word was "just." Why should
>> Quality be just what you like? Why should "what you
>> like" be "just"? What did "just" mean in this case?
>> When separated out like this for independent
>> examination it became apparent that "just" in this
>> case really didn't mean a damn thing. It was a purely
>> pejorative term, whose logical contribution to the
>> sentence was nil. Now, with that word removed, the
>> sentence became "Quality is what you like," and its
>> meaning was entirely changed. It had become an
>> innocuous truism."
>Isn't this from ZMM? Written before the MOQ? Before Pirsig proposed
>that Quality and reality are synonyms? We agree that it would be wrong
>to say, "Reality is what you like" which I mistakingly thought you were
>claiming when you first put this up.
I don't find this quote as so mistaken as you do. By taking out
the just he showing liking is not subjective whatever goes thing.
I feel you are reading it as "Reality is whatever you would like it
to be". Now that's subjective whatever goes thing.
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