Hi Bo,
Long time no see. I hope you are well.
The menu/food analogy is a variant of the map/terrain one. On page
103 in LILA Pirsig takes the metaphysic=map as granted and just
speaks about the the SOM map and the MOQ map as different
projections (the earth is round and no flat map can fully represent it
beyond a certain scale)
I agree.
And yet Ian, this is SOM or intellect. Objectivity (knowledge) vs
Subjective (mind-games). The preceding social level had no such
distinction (I won't start on that again) nor does the MOQ
subscribe to
the S/O, but have relegated it the role of its highest static. Now,
the
static realm is the place to be if only understood in the MOQ sense,
but for the time being we circle aimlessly around in some no-man's-
land between SOM (intellect) and the MOQ (as intellect too).
In Pirsig's MOQ, SOM and the the MOQ itself are menus not food or
maps not terrain. We don't need to circle around aimlessly, we can
choose the map we prefer.
I think the map/terrain or "understood/presumed reality" analogy is
misleading. Quality isn't the terrain with the MOQ a map - this is
merely more SOM.
The distinction is between experience and two different intellectual
descriptions of experience. Your menu/food confusion is due to the
fact that you do not view the MOQ as the MOQ describes itself, as an
intellectual pattern.
Best,
Steve
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