Krimel said to dmb:
.... Against all expectation they not only accepted my but invited me to come
full time on a Graduate Fellowship.
dmb says:
Congratulations and break a leg. You're going to have fun.
Krimel also said:
In the continuum of objective versus interpretive, the department is heavily
skewed toward interpretative. In fact some the main people in the department
have been key in developing the field of autoethnography which is a direct
response to some of the kinds of criticisms of anthropology, or in this case
sociology, that Pirsig levels in Lila. ...While I seriously doubt that emersion
in this environment will ultimately make me more sympathetic to what I regard
as your wooly headed analysis, who can say. I originally entered graduate
school 30 years ago as something of a mystic and emerged as a behaviorist.
Perhaps the reverse will happen at this late stage. I rather hope not but I
think this should illustrate that with my deeds, if not so much with my words
on this forum, I do try to remain open in my thinking.
dmb says:
I think your instincts are right on here. That environment will definitely make
you more sympathetic to my "wooly-headed" analysis. I guarantee it. In fact,
the difference between the objective approach and the interpretive approach is
the difference between Modernism and Postmodernism. In a nutshell, that's what
James and Pirsig are saying: that reality is fundamentally interpretive rather
than objective. You will soon discover that this view is now so common among
thinkers that the objective approach is considered to be quaint and
old-fashioned. There are still some defenders of 'realism", but they have to
defend it on completely different terms now. You're about to find out how
wooly-headed Pirsig is not. You'll see what wooly-headed really looks like
these days and then'll we'll have a laugh about how sensible pragmatism is.
You'll see it for yourself.
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