Hello there,
Sorry to barge in! I just read Lila last weekend and my head has been
spinning ever since. I have read many of the essays on www.moq.org, trying
to find holes in MoQ.
I noticed several people criticizing MoQ on the grounds that man is not a
central element in it, they do not seem to accept the concept that we are
just a part of a "machinery". Did I understand correctly? And if I did, what
would be the reason to consider man so superior that everything should
revolve around him and exist to serve him?
A couple of minor details I would like to point out in Lila...
(1) The light phenomenon, the halo. Pirsig says that people who have had
near death experiences report seeing a bright light and that this is an
indication of dropping the static value patterns and entering the dynamic
domain. I remember watching a documentary on TV several years ago about US
fighter pilots training for G forces in a centrifuge. Just before passing
out for lack of blood circulation to the brain they saw a bright light. My
own experience supports this: I have once passed out due to physical
exhaustion and my sight failed like an old TV being turned off, darkness
came from the edges, so that just before losing my sight completely I saw
only a little bit of light in the middle. To me this seems to be a purely
biological/physical phenomena, the brain is shutting down due to lack of
oxygen and that works wonders on your eye sight (and hearing, too!).
(2) Pirsig states that crime is on the rise during this century, to
demonstrate the chaotic times we live in. I have not checked any statistics
myself but I have heard from several sources that actually crime has been on
the decline for decades. It is the media which keeps showing crime all the
time thus making the problem seem worse than it really is. Just a thought.
Best Wishes
Sasu Mattila
Melbourne, Australia
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