[Krimel]
Why do you think this is so difficult, especially for people familiar with
Pirsig?
[Arlo]
The answer to this question is embedded in the question itself. Short answer,
"it's not".
Platt's selective decontextualization and dismissal of 90% of what Pirsig says
serves his need to deify "Dynamic Quality". His "Qualigod" embraces all the
usual associations of a "god"; an external, guiding, manipulative "force" that
intermittently appears to the select few. Remember how he attacked me a few
posts ago, "Dynamic Quality has never appeared to you." And a thousand angels
fell from the sky.
Its why he refuses to answer questions about the distinctions between "chance"
and "DQ", or about his belief that "only man can respond to DQ", as he is too
much a coward to reveal his theistic Qualigod outright. Instead, he defends it
by copying and pasting a few out-of-context quotes that even HE cannot defend
when they are examined. I told Andre that as soon as his quotes are taken and
critically examined towards what he is saying, all he will do is bury his head
in the sand and begin spewing talk-radio mire ("arrogant academic sucking his
thumb in the ivory tower"... so predictable, the only thing missing was
"commie"... which I am sure is coming).
What's funny too is that Platt holds his decontextual quotes to be Cannon, and
accuses anyone who challenges them as being a heretic, all the while dismissing
himself the great bulk of what Pirsig says. You see the analogue here, of
course. This is EXACTLY what many people do with religion. They cling to one or
two out-of-context passages, mock and ridicule as heretical anyone who dares
challenge these, but then they themselves ignore the bulk of whatever their
particular "bible" contains. (Example, they cling to "homosexuality is bad
(Mmmkay?)" but ignore that the repeated primary message of Jesus is compassion;
feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and healing the sick.)
So if you challenge the decontextualized Brujo quote, you sir are a heretic!
How DARE you challenge Pirsig!! But if you mention ZMM at all, or anything else
from LILA that contradicts that one quote, you are dismissed as relying on
"outdated" ideas or simply ignored outright.
Welcome to the World of Qualigod.
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