And another point about hippies, if the truth could be reconstructed I
would wager that the "hippies" made Pirsig a best selling author. There
would be not Lila without hippies. The demographic segment potentially
open to his voice in America alone was 850,000 strong and when ZMM was
published in1974, they had just awoken to the reality that the just
because a position seemed morally "right" it did not assure that it
would manifest "good". They were just waking up to reality and along
comes ZaMM
Think about it, the "hero" of Zen, Phaedrus, was the ultimate
anti-establishmentarian.
One of the principle hippy creads!
American college dropout who sojourned to the East for enlightenment
during his youth. Highly critical of the establishments of education,
science, religion, philosophy who goes mad in the pursuit of the
"better" way. Now after the big fight was lost (in the hippy case love,
peace, and happiness) trying somehow pull the pieces together so that
his son would not go down the same path to madness. The same thing they
were doing.
And he deified the same word, Freedom!
Bob I'm think'n you were a hippy.
3WD
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