Ron said to dmb:
...He or she understands the rational relationships between all the parts, even
some unconsidered at the time. But thats not killing the intellect, thats
aligning the intellect, it is a rational understanding. Quieting the mind,
engageing in the moment is a useful method to free the intellect. If there is a
consistency in ideas with an MoQ , it must then follow that if the intellectual
level is the highest good, Pirsig must not then be pointing away from it as Dan
seems to suggest. ...what I thought Dan and I had agreed upon previously, is
that intellect should be harmonized and aligned with dynamic quality, then the
quote above and your comments are continuous with the concept of the expansion
of rationality.
dmb says:
Right, I don't think of it as killing the intellect. That's what's so useful
about the bike repair metaphor, I think. You can't be an artful mechanic
without some level of mastery. Following DQ is not some kind of magic where you
get to skip the hard work. You gotta learn the static stuff first and then you
can let it flow. On this point, James asks a rhetorical question: Does a man
walk on his right leg more essentially than his left? No, he says. The whole
point and purpose of concepts and abstractions is bring them to the task of
living. They're supposed to function by being put to work in experience and if
they only ever remain aloft among other abstractions and never come back to the
earth of things, like fixing a bike, then they are useless and empty at best.
This is another sense in which static patterns are secondary; they are the
mutable servants of life, not the final answer to the riddle of the universe.
They are supposed to be subservient. But killing them? I don't think we ought
to take that literally. How intellectual is the book that says intellectual
patterns are only the highest static good? Very. I think the idea is to loosen
up our theories and cultivate an openness to novel possibilities but that
doesn't mean we can forget the difference between a wrench and screwdriver or
hammer nails with a stick of butter.
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