At The End Of A Very Pleasant Summer Day. 2000 South Colfax Ave, Minneapolis.

…"And their things, their monster keeps eating up land and polluting their air and lakes, and there is no way to strike back at it, and hardly any way to escape it. That attitude is not hard to come to. You go through a heavy industrial area of a large city and there it all is, the technology. In front of it are high barbed-wire fences, locked gates, signs saying NO TRESPASSING, and beyond, through sooty air, you see ugly strange shapes of metal and brick whose purpose is unknown, and whose masters you will never see."

At the end of a pleasant summer day, none of the"sooty air… ugly strange shapes." are seen anywhere near to 2000 South Colfax Ave, Minneapolis, MN. (In /\ Above /\ Photo, see in green “South Colfax Avenue” on the signpost). Pirsig attended elementary school about four blocks North where Colfax intersects Hennepin Avenue, Hennepin Avenue is easy to identify on maps, because it is a major cross town 4 lane boulevard, that runs at a ~25 angle from North.
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In The Above ZMM Passage, The Narrator Takes Up One Of His Major Topic Which Negatively Inflict Us In Our Modern Times.
…These are the problems introduced by “mindless technology. And while recognizing the supreme benefits of technology, tho whole of ZMM is how to not only live constructively with technology (The Godhead), but in the very midst of it, achieve a positive productive society, which efficiently (and effectively) uses natural resources, while avoiding much of the Ugly-ness, and Desolation seen in our modern cities, and especially in their Mining & Manufacturing areas. …
Click Here To See ZMMQ Gallery Photo Showing => Billings, MT, Where Heavy Industries, Greet the Traveler. Low Quality.
….This Photo Serves To Well Illustrate (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), The Previous (To Billings) Photo’s ZMM Narrator Passage => “The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a Genetic Defect Within The Nature Of Reason Itself”. And Our Current Modes Of Rationality, Which Are Not Moving Society Forward Into A Better World. They Are Taking It Further And Further From That Better World.”

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The Discussion Of “A Genetic Defect Within The Nature Of Reason Itself,”
…This Worry, Leads To The ZMM Narrator’s Discusses Of The Problems Of “Reason + Rationality , ” Shown Below => My 3 ZMMQ Gallery Photos Which Have This Discussion Are At The Blue Links.

Click Here For Gallery Photo With Narrator’s “the ghost that underlies all of technology, all of modern science, all of Western thought. It was the ghost of rationality itself. [In other words, this ghost is the basis of our civilization’s primary received knowledge.] ”.

Click Here For Gallery Photo With Narrator’s “… a ghost [of received knowledge] which calls itself rationality but whose appearance is that of incoherence and meaninglessness, which causes the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad because of their irrelevance to anything else. This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, ”.

Click Here For Gallery Photo With Narrator’s “This is the ghost [received knowledge] of normal everyday assumptions which declares … that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the [received knowledge] ghost says.… ”.

Here We Must Realize (And By Metaphoric Bridge Connections, Keep In Mind), That Author Robert Pirsig’s Discussion In The 3 Blue Links Above, Is Because He Offers Some VERY Good Ways To Solve These Problems,

…AND At The Same Time Provide VERY Good Reasons For Living. This Is Provided By “Quality” , The Discussion Of Which starts In ZMM Chapter 14, Page 153, And Is The Major Focus Of ZMM For The Remainder Of Author Robert Pirsig’s Book.
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