Tricycle remembers Robert Pirsig ...
Quality—you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is.
But that’s self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is,
they have more quality. But when you try to say what the quality is, apart from
the things that have it, it all goes poof! There’s nothing to talk about. But
if you can’t say what Quality is, how do you know what it is, or how do you
know that it even exists? If no one knows what it is, then for all practical
purposes it doesn’t exist at all. But for all practical purposes it really does
exist. What else are the grades based on? Why else would people pay fortunes
for some things and throw others in the trash pile? Obviously some things are
better than others—but what’s the “betterness?" So round and round you go,
spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding any place to get traction. What the
hell is Quality? What is it?
No comments:
Post a Comment