[Arlo adds] This should have been attributed to Ron and not Marsha, apologies.
[Marsha] When someone makes the blanket statement "it's all an analogy" with all the finality of a question well answered, inquiring minds aren't as easily satisfied. [Arlo] I don't think its "inquiry" that drives unease with this answer, but an inability to understand the inherent incompleteness of symbolic systems, and THAT is a product of S/O thinking. It is Phaedrus' bewilderment that the Chairman missed Plato's comment. The Chairman missed it because it violated his S/O expectations about the completeness of language. It is why Pirsig realized that his MOQ, like any and all symbolic systems, had to be a finger pointing at the moon. To think otherwise is simply to repeat the Chairman's mistake, and to miss entirely what Pirsig is saying. "This entire description of the [MOQ and its levels] is just an analogy." "What?" he says again, then loudly, "It is the truth!" "Of course it's an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that." 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/md/archives.html
