Hi all,
I am Geoff and some of you might know me from MOQ discuss. I find the
subject that is now in discussion very interesting. Due to this topic, I
feel it would be good for me to join MOQ focus. Just as an introduction I
will give my philosophy on The Giant (The City).
Our whole life seems to be built up upon the place we live. We become most
accustomed to our home culture and the way we live our daily lives. In this
way we could almost say the giant is almost a parent to us. My
generation have now become more dependent on cities than past generations.
As Pirsig writes we are just pigs to a farmer. If any imprisoned animal was
released
from their farmer they could not survive since they have lost the skills of
their ancient ancestors.
They have forgotten how to hunt and how to be independent and find their own
food, not to be feed by their owner every day. This has somewhat occurred to
my generation. Since we were born in the 1970s and 1980s we would probably
have been born in cities and possibly spent our whole life in them. If we
were to move out to the country we could not become self dependant. Why,
because we have been so used to having things done for us. It is sad to hear
that so many people have lost the skill to cook their own meals and have to
resort to buying fast food. We are losing the battle when it comes to
building relationships. The statistics shows that divorces have sky-rocketed
in the past few decades. Marriage seems to be not eternal. Is there a
reason?
It may possibly be that the urbanisation of the world creates stress in
general!
Are it could be the effects of the television generation. When our minds are
being distorted
since the role models that we watch have affairs and act poorly. I am unsure
of the stats but I
could probably guess that the rate of divorces in 'the westernised world'
would be far more greater then
any 'eastern world'. When Pirsig says that cities are higher evolutionary
forms, cities have developed from
lower evolutionary forms. Before there was the giant then there was the
town, before the town was the village and
so forth.
Well there is my view, I hope I can catch up on what has already been said.
Thank you,
Geoff
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