Hello Angus,
I am not sure I get what you are saying here.
Why do you think Pirsig would put MOQ with Victorianism?
PIRSIG: “I stumbled across your stunning Athens Forum site last night and
called Wendy to the computer. When we had finished reading it all we took out
a bottle of cognac and celebrated. The MOQ is at last out of my hands. Other
people are at last sustaining it on a continuing social basis. I can disappear
tomorrow and it will keep on going. This is a major event in its history. "
In trying to understand your mint analogy it reminded me of Kafka's
"The Hunger Artist" where he responded that " because I have to fast, I can't
help it, because I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe
me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else"
So I really lost at what your are trying to say but what it sounds like is
that you are barfing up quality wafers and stuffing yourself on love wafers.
I think it would help to see your point if you explain what the difference
between these two are? I always viewed "loving something" and "valueing
something" synonomous.
It's all good.
Erin
Auguste Comte.
>He notes 3 stages: theology (god is dead), metaphysics
>(Victorianism), positivism (Dynamic meaning). We have
>been through the first 2 and are now on the doorstep
>on positivism. I think ZAMM and LILA are both calls
>for a positivist morality. A morality that is created
>by man through love and actively implemented in the
>world today. Reverting to a metaphysics is a failure,
>a regression to Victorian morality. It does not work.
>And anyone trying to defend the MOQ as Pirsig's main
>line has not read LILA. The MOQ is a "wahfer thin
>mint" that if you eat it will make you sick again,
>Victorian style (time to hitch up your corsets).
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