Friends,
This quote of Jonathan's awakened some concerns about departure from understanding of Quality:
Pirsig hasn't really done away with the SO at all, but has incorporated
it into his MOQ. If we consider subject as the observer and object as
the observed (things that happen), Pirsig has created multiple
non-exclusive subjects. The observer observes at the molecular level, or
is an organism observing at the biological level, or a society observing
at the social level etc. Thus subject and object become relative terms.
Objectivity thus also becomes relative - (-: depending, of course, on
how you look at it :-).
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Hurrah Jonathan! But not quite far enough.
Mr. Pirsig was quite clear about this in ZAMM. Qualtity turns out to be no subject and no object. Remember the "Every
last bit of it" statement, in which he simultaneously knew that he was speaking the truth and yet had concerns about
how such statements could be taken? I know that I need not quote to you here, as we are hardly speaking of some
"sacred scriptures." His thinking was beyond classical logic at the initial realization of "Quality," which is indivisible by
his own assertion.
In the later work, Lila, he attempts to divide it anyway. I'm not sure why, unless he is in his own wisdom attempting to
show us in painful ways how easily we can torture ourselves with such cerebrations.
To respond more directly to the subject at hand, the question is not a question. Quality is Quality. Subject and object are
artificial. Quality is that upon which everything depends (or is coincident with.) It is not divisible. It is beyond subject and
object, or any formulations thereof. Please remember Mr.Pirsig's exposition on Joshu's "Mu!".
So why concern ourselves with such questions as "static/dynamic" and "subject/object"? There are no truths to be
found here. Unask the question!
There is no Method of Quality, only Quality itself. "All of it! Every last bit of it!"
Trounce me,
Andy
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