Horse, i suspect you are making sense. i wholly concur that the Good is not indentical with what is moral, i.e. reality. all that is, right now, has value (you folks are using the word 'moral', but i prefer 'value', because anytime i think of the word 'moral' i think of SOM-type morality - my own personal prejudice). one might say that the world right now has a certain level of value, though i'm opposed to trying to quantify it. through our actions, we alter the structure of reality in some small way. 'creating' a building, for example, is really not creation but rather a process of changing reality such that it now has a different level of value. if the new reality is an improvement, then the action was Good. if now, the opposite. hence there is in fact a direction we're striving, as Pirsig claims; we're struggling to reach something higher - higher levels of value. the process of doing that is the Good.
i have to think more about this, but that's all for now. btw, i noticed there's another Jon(athan) on this list, so you can call me Laux if you want. peace.
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"when the tao is present in the universe, the horses haul manure." -lao tsu
