Andre, Mary and Mark, Mr. Pirsig is an American (Sorry Magnus for the cultural insensitivity) Philosopher and I believe that Lila was intended to be an explanation of this American synthesis as it is found in America, where the Asian Minded migrated east, the Victorian Minded migrated west, and both clashed and combined in Turtle Island.
I found a real interesting snippet somewheres on the web, A Cherokee site, on this subject, that described it this way: A common misconception is that European culture invaded America and wiped out Native Tribal culture, but closer to the truth is that European and Native American culture combined to create a new and unique synthetic worldview. Pirsig points this out in Lila and celebrates it and shows how we need to balance our lives better by refuting the emphasis upon the Victorian-centric apparatus of the giant as the ideal. In other words, the synthesis of east and west is real, except in academia where Indians are objects to be studied or government where they are subjects to be controlled. John 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/
