I happen to be in the middle of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now and I’m amused that this post popped up. It seems almost to be aimed directly at Pirsig, whose primary problem seems (so far) to be that his use of traditional rationality to critique traditional rationality leads to the breaking of his mind. I find myself saying to the book, “Dissolve the question,” each time Pirsig reaches a dilemma or ponders a definition, but instead he builds towering recursive castles of thought (often grounded in nothing more than intuition) that would be heavily downvoted if posted here.
That came off as more negative than I had intended, and yet I still mean it.
I happen to be in the middle of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now and I’m amused that this post popped up. It seems almost to be aimed directly at Pirsig, whose primary problem seems (so far) to be that his use of traditional rationality to critique traditional rationality leads to the breaking of his mind. I find myself saying to the book, “Dissolve the question,” each time Pirsig reaches a dilemma or ponders a definition, but instead he builds towering recursive castles of thought (often grounded in nothing more than intuition) that would be heavily downvoted if posted here.
That came off as more negative than I had intended, and yet I still mean it.