Open Space & Nature. Here The Narrator Brings To Our Mind =>

…The Wide Open Countryside And Mountains, You Have Seen In My Photos, Such As The Above. =>

…What a Contrast To the Narrator’s “Primary America“!

…“But in the secondary America we’ve been through, of back roads, and Chinaman’s ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated. And so there wasn’t much feeling of loneliness. ” (cont. Next)

A Mountain Valley along US-26 (Ochooo Highway) 3 miles East of Keys Summit Pass, OR.
… Keys Summit Pass Is 3/4 Of The Way From John Day Fossil Beds, OR To Mitchell, OR. Click Here To See Terrane Map.
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What Was It Like For People When this Tree Was Living?.

…“[But in the secondary America we’ve been through,] …. That’s the way it must have been a hundred or two hundred years ago. Hardly any people and hardly any loneliness. I’m undoubtedly over-generalizing, but if the proper qualifications were introduced it would be true.” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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The Blue Sky “Isolates” the Dark Green.

…“ … but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil. That’s why I went to so much trouble to show how technology could be used to destroy the evil. A person who knows how to fix motorcycles—with Quality—is less likely to run short of friends than one who doesn’t. And they aren’t going to see him as some kind of object either. Quality destroys objectivity every time. ” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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A Seed Sprouted On a Dead Log Long Ago, “And Secretly Pursues" Its Quality Track, Thus Making The Best Of It.

…As the Log Rotted-Out From Underneath, Naturally The Small Tree’s Roots Reached Longer And Longer Until They Reached Into the Ground.

Now This Tree Shines In the Sunlight For All the World To See! TRUE TENACITY!

…“Or if he takes whatever dull job he’s stuck with—and they are all, sooner or later, dull—and, just to keep himself amused, starts to look for options of Quality, and secretly pursues these options, just for their own sake, thus making an art out of what he is doing, he’s likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person …. ” (Cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Looking Up, Up, the Giant Trees Reach for the Sky.

This Is A Cathedral In the Wilderness!

…“[ …. he’s likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person] and much less of an object to the people around him because his Quality decisions change him too. And not only the job and him, but others too because the Quality tends to fan out like waves.” (Cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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The Tree, Ever So Straight.

Note Tiny Spot Of Skylight, Straight Up.

…“The Quality job he didn’t think anyone was going to see is seen, and the person who sees it feels a little better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling on to others, ….” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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A Spot of Sunlight Reveals the Bark of An Individual Tree.

…“ …. and in that way the Quality tends to keep on going. .. My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that’s all. ” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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This One Tree Stands Tall Over the Group That Did Not Make It.

…“ God, I don’t want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out. These can be left alone for a while. There’s a place for them but …. ” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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These Two Trees have The Foundation To Stand For a Long Time: Past, Present & Future!

…“ …. [big programs] …. they’ve got to be built on a foundation of Quality within the individuals involved. We’ve had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, …. ” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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What Will Happen If Our Country Runs Out Of Gumption?

…“ …. [ individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it,] and now it’s just about depleted. Everyone’s just about out of gumption. ” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Same Two Trees Higher Up.

They’ve Demonstrated Plenty Of Gumption!

“[Everyone’s just about out of gumption.] And I think it’s about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource—individual worth.” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Same Two Trees Straight Up, Ever So Straight!

They’ve Demonstrated Plenty Of Gumption!

Note Translucent Green of This Conifer Frond.

“There are political reactionaries who’ve been saying something close to this for years. I’m not one of them, but to the extent they’re talking about real individual worth and not just an excuse for giving more money to the rich, they’re right. We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. I hope that in this Chautauqua some directions have been pointed to.” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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The Path Goes by Ferns As it Plunges Deeper Into the Forest.

…“Phaedrus went a different path from the idea of individual, personal Quality decisions. I think it was a wrong one, but perhaps if I were in his circumstances I would go his way too. He felt that the solution started with a new philosophy, or he saw it as even broader than that—a new spiritual rationality—in which the ugliness and the loneliness and the spiritual blankness of dualistic technological reason would become illogical. Reason was no longer to be "value free." Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, … ” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Two Trees In Side-By-Side Competition; Neither One Yielding.

…“[Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality], and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture with the tendency underlying all the evil of our technology, the tendency to do what is "reasonable" even when it isn’t any good. That was the root of the whole thing. Right there. I said a long time ago that he was in pursuit of the ghost of reason. This is what I meant. Reason and Quality had become separated and in conflict with each other and Quality had been forced under and reason made supreme somewhere back then.” (cont. Next)

Forest path at a Roadside Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Typical Coastal Foggy-Drizzle Conditions.

…“It’s begun to rain a little. Not so much we have to stop though. Just the faint beginnings of a drizzle. .. The road leads out of the tall forests now and into open grey skies. ” (Cont. Next)

Somewhere at the end of the Giant Redwoods Forest, Six Miles East of Crescent City, CA. Narrator stated that they were in coastal redwood forests as they crossed the border into California. Above he says “The road leads out of the tall forests now, …. ” meaning they leave the Simpson Reed Grove, Giant Redwoods State Park!!
…Again notice how Author Robert Pirsig nicely avoids specifically mentioning this place. which he would call "artificial and tourist-dominated".
…We already know his reaction, for example, from Yellowstone National Park and/or Crater Lake National Park. He dislikes these parks because, to his mind, they are too artificial and hence not Quality. We will see more examples of this ahead.
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Dull Signs and Dull Aristotle.

…After Leaving the Simpson Reed Redwood Grove, It Iis Six Miles To Crescent City, CA.

… “Along the road are many billboards. Schenley’s in warm-painted colors goes on forever, but one gets the feeling that Irma’s gives tired, mediocre permanents because of the way the paint is cracking on her sign. .. I have since read Aristotle again, looking for the massive evil that appears in the fragments from Phædrus, but have not found it there. What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge, …. ” (Cont. Next)

Entrance to Crescent City, CA. Note: Tired, faded, dry, cracked paint, Metaphoric Bridge Connection corresponds to “Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations … + desiccated …. dualistic reason …. “.
…I have also tried to read much Aristotle, and can only agree with the Narrator. The reading was so dull that I would always fall asleep, no matter how awake at start or how hard I tried to focus my attention.

New topic:
…The drive from the Simpson Reed Redwood Grove to Crescent City was six miles. On the way. I looked for faded signs to photograph, but mostly I did not find any signs at all. The /\ Above /\ Photo is the best I could find for a “faded sign”.
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The Death of Sarpedon. Fashioned by Euxitheos and Painted by Euphronios. 515 BC Ceramic, 46cm high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (Scan Credit: MyStudio.com)

…[Aristotle’s writings] “ …. whose organization appears extremely poor, and …. seems primitive in the way old Greek pottery in the museums seems primitive. I’m sure if I knew a lot more about it I would see a lot more and not find it primitive at all. But without knowing all that …. “(Cont.Next)

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On the Way Into Town, This Is the Best Example Of A Faded Sign I Could Find.

…“ …. I can’t see that it [Aristotle] lives up either to the raves of the Great Books group or the rages of Phædrus. I certainly don’t see Aristotle’s works as a major source of either positive or negative values. But the raves of the Great Books group are well known and published. Phædrus’ rages aren’t, and it becomes part of my obligation to dwell on these.” (Cont. Next)

Entrance to Crescent City, CA. Note: Tired, faded, dry, cracked paint, Metaphoric Bridge Connection corresponds to Aristotle’s “desiccated …. dualistic reason.“
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