His early failure had released him from any felt obligation
to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to
a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institutions such as
schools, churches, governments, and political organizations of every sort all
tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of
their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these
functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental
escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about
institutional truths for the remainder of his time.
Robert M. Pirsig, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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