> [Platt]
> The full paragraph, stating clearly it was a mistake to "against
> society."
>
> "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 sixties thought that since both
> are antisocial, and since both are anti-intellectual, why then they
> must both be the same. That was the mistake."
> [Arlo]
> This says nothing to the effect that it was a mistake to go against
> society. Indeed, Pirsig says the opposite ("The Hippie revolution of
> the eighties was a moral revolution against both society and
> intellectuality") The above paragraph shows the mistake in thinking
> that because "biology" and "DQ" are both against society and
> intellectuality, that biology and DQ were the same.
Pirsig makes clear the Hippies went against society:
"In the twenties it had been thought that society was the cause of man's
unhappiness and that intellect would cure it, but in the sixties it was
thought that both society and intellect together were the cause of all the
unhappiness and that transcendence of both society and intellect would cure
it. Whatever the intellectuals of the twenties had fought to create, the
flower children of the sixties fought to destroy. Contempt for rules, for
material possessions, for war, for police, for science, for technology were
standard repertoire." (Lila, 24)
> So, tell me, what are a few Victorian moral codes you feel should be
> dusted off, and what are a few you feel should be abandoned.
>
> Also, is it only Victorianism we should not reject outright? Should
> we also re-examine Marxist moral codes, dust them off and see what
> they were trying to accomplish?
The most important Victorian value we ought to "dust off" is the free
market, a value Marxism rejects outright.
"A free market is a Dynamic institution. What people buy and what people
sell, in other words what people value, can never be contained by any
intellectual formula." (Lila, 17)
> What about Indian values? What are a few of those you think we should
> "dust off"?
I agree with Pirsig:
"Indian values are all right for an Indian style of life, but they don't
work so well in a complex technological society." (Lila, 22)
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