Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This gets into an idea of ever-decreasing circles in contrast to > absolute dichotomies, and is (I believe) behind Pirsig's valuable > recognition about what "we" are. "A culture of one. A culture is an > evolved static pattern of quality capable of Dynamic change. That's > what you are. That's the best definition of you that's ever been > invented.You may think everything you say and everything you think is > just you but actually the language you use and the values you have > are the result of thousands of years of cultural evolution." (LILA) Except as Pirsig points out, an individual, like the brujo, is the sole catalyst of cultural change. "A tribe can change its values only person by person and someone has to be first." (Lila, 9) ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
