Marsha said to Eddo:
Also, that cultural matrix can dissolve. It may dissolve for only a few
minutes. The results may not be "insanity" but the cultural matrix never seems
as substantial. The entire matrix becomes like a mirage. Authors like RMP,
help prepare one for such experiences. Imho.
dmb says:
Where Marsha says the cultural matrix can dissolve, never seems substantial and
becomes like a mirage, Pirsig says "these moral bads and goods are not just
'customs.' They are as real as rocks and trees" and those who live outside of
this matrix are insane.
Marsha's view does NOT reflect the MOQ. It's just vacuous nihilism. It's a view
that Pirsig describes as "really stupid".
"What the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that the old Puritan and
Victorian social codes should not be followed blindly, but should not be
attacked blindly either. They should be dusted off and re-examined, fairly and
impartially, to see what they were trying to accomplish and what they actually
did accomplish toward building a stronger society. We must understand that when
a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely
morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it
is absolutely morally good. These moral bads and goods are not just 'customs.'
They are as real as rocks and trees. The destructive sympathy by intellectuals
toward lawlessness in the sixties and since is derived, no doubt, from what is
perceived to be a common enemy, the social system. But the Metaphysics of
Quality concludes that this sympathy was really stupid. The decades since the
sixties have borne this out."
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