Arlo said to dmb:
Yes, I think Goya's thoughts align more with ZMM's synthesis of classic and
romantic understanding than with LILA's DQ/SQ. It was with his statement that
"Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters" that I was
squinting a bit and seeing the necessary harmony between DQ and SQ come through
(something like "DQ abandoned by SQ produces chaos"), but this was only an
exercise in vague symmetry.
dmb says:
Yes, we get the same idea (don't abandon reason) where Pirsig says, "classical,
structured, dualistic subject object knowledge, although necessary, isn't
enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to
have a sense of what's good."
And that's the problem with anti-intellectualism. We do not want the kind of
intellectualism that cuts off imagination or prevents us from seeing Quality
but to abandon reason is to invite impossible monsters. It's regressive,
reactionary, devolutionary, and even immoral.
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