From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 19:08:53 GMT
Paul, Mark, Steve and all:
In chapter 24 of Lila, Pirsig writes...
"Phaedrus thought the reason this (hippie) movement had been so hard to
understand is that "understanding" itself, static intellect, was its enemy.
The culture-bearing book of the period, ON THE ROAD, by Jack Kerouac, was a
running lecture against intellect."
"...his analysis showed that this "dynamic" sixties revolution made a
disastrous mistake that destroyed it before it really got started. The
Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just two
directions to go: toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality. The
revolutionaries of the 60's thought that since both are anti-social, and
since both are anti-intellectual, why then they both must be the same. That
was the mistake. American writing on Zen during this period showed this
confusion."
My point? Be careful, that's all.
Thanks,
dmb
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