From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Sep 28 2003 - 20:53:12 BST
Andy said to Squonk:
I think that if you really wish for the MoQ to help others the easiest
thing to do is give them a copy of ZMM and Lila and then let them reach
their
own conclusions... Pirsig's work will have to stand on its own. It doesn't
need any desciples nor does it need a following. Give everybody else the
same room you had to decide which interpretations are useful and which are
not.
dmb says:
I know what you're saying and don't exactly disagree, but I'd add that in
addition to reaching our own conclusions a forum such as this provides the
valuable opportunity to learn from each other. Before I ever logged on to
any computer, I used to host book discussion groups. I'd read ZAMM more than
once and had drawn my own conclusions, but when I read it again for one of
these discussion groups it was a whole different deal. (Ron DiSanto lives in
my neighborhood and generously agreed to join us for that one.) All I'm
really saying is that working through ideas in a collective setting like
this is superior to solitary contemplation in many ways. I don't mean to
suggest that we can avoid drawing our own conclusions, but I think that
comprehension is also a collective process. Its a reality check of sorts.
Its a way to measure the value of one's own conclusions.
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