From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 29 2005 - 14:32:37 BST
Hi Arlo,
> To value Liebniz, and to ignore all the people who have historically worked
> through a cultural language, evolving society and various material and
> symbolic artifacts, his colleauges past and present, is a social custom
> that values the "Me", that optical delusion of consciousness.
One of the reasons I, and perhaps others including my favorites, the
Founding Fathers, "deify" the individual is because Pirsig emphasizes that
evolution depends on individuals. The story of the brujo is all about one,
single solitary soul being responsible for an evolutionary step forward in
the Zuni society. To make clear the vital importance of the individual,
Pirsig wrote: "A tribe can change its values only person by person and
someone has to be first." (Leibniz was first.) Moreover, Pirsig says that
only a individual can respond to DQ. And, his basic question, "Does Lila
have Quality" focuses entirely on one individual.
Of course there's no denying your point about society being necessary to
support the individual and to react to individual DQ responses. But to
claim "me" is a delusion? Doesn't it say Arlo Bensinger on your birth
certificate? :-)
Platt
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