Glenn and Roger: The MOQ says we can judge cultures, but a cultural
relativist? He's more like a cultural scientist. The part of your exchange
that grabbed me was this bit about Pirsig's pomo tendencies....
ROG:
I think you are doing Pirsig a disservice by assuming that similarities in
his language and concepts with "pomos" implies that he is -- like many of
them -- a cultural relativist. He isn't.
GLENN:
I've never explicitly heard Pirsig to hold such a position either, but if
you read some pomo (postmodern) literature you will see the same tell-tale
catch-phrases that Pirsig uses: "socially derived" and "socially mediated".
I think he's either been genuinely influenced by these ideas and those of
Science Studies, or he's...
Fresh DMB:
Who knows what evil lurks on Pirsig's book shelf. I imagine he's read nearly
everything. Its pretty easy to believe that Pirsig and pomo are talking
about the same things, but in different ways. They have common interests
even if they don't agree. Or maybe they do? Glenn, have you got anything
essentially pomo that sounds like something Pirsig would say?
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