Denis and all,
I agree but I've 'sat in' on this board quite a lot and reviewed what people have had to say without saying anything between now and a year and a half ago; and I find that people are unduly harsh toward Pirsig oftentimes, and often they take Lila it's-self to be a philosopical treatse, when in actuality its more like a story or a long intoduction to a new school of thought (at a strech). That's all I'm saying. I think ina very real sence Robert Pirsig often deserves more symapathy than he does critisism. Consider: What did he set out to do? He published a book about searching for himself, then he published a book telling us how it turned out. I REALLY don't think he meant to have followers, and I'm pretty sure that he wasn't meaning to redefine the world's metaphysics as much as he was trying to say that the current metaphysics was lacking and he offered his two cents (rather well, but in a way that CAN easily be critized) about how to fix the problem, or about where a philosophical rift exists and a
way to bridge it. He did put forth the groundwork for a new metaphysics, but online in the most vague sense - he didn't say: 'ok, here it is, now go and study and everything else is commentary'. He seemd to say rather:' I went on a big quest and here is what I ended up with, take it or leave it'. Obviously we here took it, and now many times I see people turn around and critique him after they've subscribed to a mailing list that was intended, if anything, I think to try to clear up his vaguer areas, not criticize him over them.
Does anyone agree with me, or am I just not in the MOQ mailinglist vibe yet?
Jae
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