From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 03:15:32 BST
Platt,
If you read Campbell, or my post, you'd understand that the "low quality"
practices you mention are the result of a falsity of names. "My God, not Your
God", Jesus not Mohammed, etc. The Monomyth is ONE WAY, of approaching the
analogy, the only way we have to speak of the Good, according to Pirsig and the
Sophists (which I agree with).
Nothing in my post indicated a favoring of "religious practices". Pirsig states
very clearly in ZMM that (1) Quality is the continuing impetus which causes us
to create the world, and (2) in response to Quality, men invent religion. He is
very clear that the Sophists understood that the ONLY way to talk about Quality
was through analogy.
All I did was suggest that "earning money", NOT your restated "Quality of
freedom", should be subservient to a discussion on Quality (what is good, and
what is not good). Approaching Quality through an idea like the Monomyth is ONE
WAY one could go about this.
Let me restate: "What is good and what is not good" SHOULD be involved in the
dialogue ABOVE earning money.... NOT in place of.
Obviously, you choose "earning money" (conveniently labeled here as personal
freedom, as if two are quaintly synonomous) over anything else.
I'll choose asking "what is good and what is not good" over "anything is
justifiable in the name of money" any day. But, that's just me.
Arlo
> If you believe in Quality "as revealed though religious practices," then
> fine. Go for it. History, including current history, tells me religious
> practices lead to all sorts of low Quality results, like airplanes
> smashing into buildings and killing thousands. I'll choose the Quality of
> freedom, the highest good of DQ and the quintessence of intellect, over
> the revelations of religion any day. But, that's just me.
>
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