Dear Pirsigians:
Somebody claimed that postmodernism and/or deconstructionism is a reaction
to the failure of the Enlightment. I don't doubt it. Lots of things are a
response to that same problem. The MOQ is an attempt to correct that
failure. Pirsig argues that this failure has resulted in a metaphysics of
substance, which is otherwise known as SOM. He also points at the same
mistake in refering to amoral scientific objectivity. The same thing might
be called godless materialism by religious conservatives. All reactionary
movements are a response to an intellectual system that has failed to
include social level values. They're reacting to the death of god. In the
intellectual level's attempt to assert itself over social level values it
has ignored and destroyed them. This is the failure of the enlightenment.
This is what the MOQ attempts to fix.
DMB
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