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How to Live Well After the Digital Revolution

How to Live Well After the Digital Revolution

Here’s an essay published on this site before rebooting it as Good Circuits Media.  There’s now an album about the concepts and philosophy written explored here.  They are nice companion pieces.  Please enjoy them both and share your thoughts.  Thank you. – Bill Antonitis (more…)

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The trouble with paying high prices for places with a view .... was that the first time it's wonderful but it gets more and more static until you hardly notice it's there. The boat was better, where the view keeps changing all the time.

Lila | Robert M. Pirsig | p285-286

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When you pass a lot of static laws to cut out the worst, the best goes with it, the sparkle disappears and what's left is just a lot of suburban blandness.

Lila | Robert M. Pirsig | p258

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You can see that where political institutions have improved throughout the centuries the improvements can usually be traced to a static-Dynamic combination: a king or constitution to preserve the static, and a parliament or jury that can act as a Dynamic eraser; a mechanism whereby new Dynamic insight can wipe out old static patterns without destroying the government itself.

Lila | Robert M. Pirsig | p255

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The law of gravity, for example, is perhaps the most ruthlessly static pattern of order in the universe. So, correspondingly, there is no single living thing that does not thumb its nose at the law day in and day out. One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution. Thus, while the simple protozoa just barely get around on their cilia, earthworms manage to control their distance and direction, birds fly into the sky, and man goes all the way to the moon.

Lila | Robert M. Pirsig | p165