I believe I must question the absolute hierarchical, independent, and
competing nature of Pirsig's 4 levels of quality. While it may be true, in
fact I probably agree with it, there is such a danger in bowing to the
higher level at the expense of the lower levels. In other words, you can
have low quality ideas that may be quite harmful to the quality of the
other levels. It seems to me that if an idea is truly of high quality, it
would enhance the quality of experiencing at other levels. Often we see
insanity the result of the intellect departing from its moorings to the
point of sacrificing the other dimensions of experiencing. There is a
dynamic tension between the levels that is a qualitative balancing act of
sorts. A ravaged body won't generate ideas for long, and a social isolate
won't have anyone to dialogue the ideas with...
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