Hey Everyone >From LILA Chapter 24: "The end of the twentieth century in America seems to be an intellectual, social and economic rust-belt, a whole society that has given up on Dynamic improvement and is slowly trying to slip back to Victorianism, the last static ratchet-latch."
Entering with a belief that after the American Revolution, America has seen little changing from generation to generation. Sure there have been technological advances, but we know Technology isn't where a quality man is formed. This rust-belt that Pirsig refers to, is the idea that we have encountered everything and potentiated everything there is to add potential to. We are taking objects already invented, and adding short cut gadgets to them and calling them new inventions. Tweaking old inventions is considered new these days. An economic Static induced rust-belt. To look at the rust-belt in the intellectual&social view. A well mannered man is considered a man with the manners of someone in the 1940's-1950's. Yes Ma'am, No Sir, thank you, please..Things again going back to the 'oldie days'. The old fashioned way to do things seems to be the best way to do things. There's nothing dynamic in that. If something old fashioned is considered quality then we are stuck in more static. Sure you can have a dynamic way of doing old fashioned acts, but they are traditionally the same thing in the end. We are stuck in the old days. Our new inventions are just old inventions being taken advantage of. Our society doesn't expect anything dynamic anymore. The most dynamic thing a person expects to have in a day is something odd on television. We are headed so far from dynamic quality they we are slipping back to the roots of America. We are based on the quality or state of Victory. As old fashioned as Victorianism. I believe that Pirsig is referring to the belief that we are not a society seeking dynamic quality, just the quality of Victory. Pirsig says a society needs dynamic improvement to continue on. The people in America have given up on dynamic improvement and are waiting for a society to challenge us. It seems we seek dynamic improvement when we are threatened. We will put forth our dynamic abilities when our Victory is questioned. Though no society has threatened us for years until the recent struggle in the Middle East. We have dynamic improvement in America's national security but thats it. Before the war on terror though we have had nothing truly threatening US society in decades. If we are not worried about our Victory then we aren't putting forth our dynamic talents near as much as we could be. This war on terror, we are trying to achieve victory from the 9/11 attacks. Trying to sustain Americas victorious reign. America is back into Victorianism and the more you look it at the more it stands out. Though this book was written in 1991, major advances past that just back this up. The stock market bubble is purely based on Victorianism. The point of entering the stock market is to have victory. The qualities of these new technological break outs are only in victory. The current American economy, intellect, and socializations are in a rust-belt of not having a quality other then victory. Just my 4am perception, Doss MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
