I wholly agree with this statement. Usually I just sit back and watch the
squad tie itself into intellectual knots over simple matters -- this is largely
due to making a simple theory extemely complex and justifying it in any
circumstance. I think Pirsig's idea of good being just good, is the fact that
the entire quality idea is very simple, and he spent pages and pages justifying
something that came down to a few sentences at the end of his struggle. "It
just is" (this is my own rationalisation)-- and therefore the entire meaning is
contained in that sentence, it leaves nothing undone or to be desired, it simply
justifies itself. You can either look as intelligence as a burden or a gift,
but in the end, intelligence "just is", and as with anything, there are two
sides of the coin that make the whole.
John Aaron O'Laughlin wrote:
> I believe that we are all missing the point of MOQ in the very first place.
> Pirsig builds the levels not to elaborate, but rather to destroy. It seems
> that in the discussions the end of his messages are being forgotten, so as
> to allow us to ramble and define something most all of you are just plain
> ignorant to. Things are just because they are good, we think because it is
> good. Intelligence does not help us point out anything in life, nor does it
> blind us in any manner. The intellectual level is not suffering to be
> over-run by the social, but rather there are no levels. So the comment
> about 'us intellectuals having to find a purpose' is just plain ludicrous.
> Our purpose, if you will, is simple found in plain old goodness. I believe
> this is true because all that is done is good, all that exists is good,
> because that is the root of existence.
>
> I ramble and am not very coherent, but I am not trying to be. You all are
> making the same mistake that Pirsig made and are trying to 'be all
> intellectual' about something as simple as life. Good is just GOOD.
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