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I wish people would stop using that title. They seem to think it is a clever click-grabber, which is probably true for most people, but for those even remotely
by ChefDenominator 10y ago
I wish people would stop using that title. They seem to think it is a clever click-grabber, which is probably true for most people, but for those even remotely familiar with the book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, opening up the article and finding no application of Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality is disappointing.
- tclancy 10y agoAnd what is clickbait, Phaedrus, And what is not clickbait— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
- Insanity 10y agoAnd I might add, the book is worth reading!
- _pmf_ 10y agoTo be fair, I found the Zen in ZatAoMM to also be more pretense (whether this was intended by Pirsig or not)..
- stuartd 10y agoThe title of Pirsig's book is itself a riff on "Zen in the Art of Archery", published in 1948.
- abiox 10y agothere's plenty of such things... "X considered harmful" seemed to have an uptick in usage for a while.
- alberto_ol 10y agoalso "what we talk about whwn we talk about...", "the unreasonable effectiveness of ..."