Hi Platt,
Thanks for the note. I have limited time to respond to your queries, but i
think Wim has directed you to where i originally explored the fascism charge
from Ch 22. It starts with the paragraph, (about 3 pages before the PARADISE
segment),
where Pirsig says "Thus, throughout this century we have seen ..."
and is concentrated in the passage beginning "Phaedrus thought that this
lapse in logic ..." and over the next page and a half. Read it carefully.
The logic is subtle and phrased so as not to offend, but to me it is quite
clear.
You refer to my essay and say that I "say that Pirsig speaks of "selves as
ridiculous" and "his vision of society in which memes compete for
privacy." I couldn't find those references either. Nor could I find any
suggestion "that it is more important to keep a modern city functioning
than to cultivate the freedoms . . . "
I have no time to look up the essay (which one?) now, but the rediculous bit
comes from Ch 15, about 3 pages before the end. I very much doubt that the
other quote is mine. Perhaps there is a typo in the word 'privacy', but I
hope it is not mine. The final quote ("that it is more important to keep a
modern city functioning than to cultivate the freedoms . . . ") is, I
presume, quoting my words, not Pirsig's. This is exactly what he implies in
the passage in Ch 22.
Must go.
John B
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