Sunday, July 21, 2024: …Unity, Oregon: A Panorama That, At Left End, Has A View Of Two Buildings,
…Either Of Which, Back In 1968, Might Have Been Author Robert Pirsig’s Gas Station.

The ZMM Narrator Says =>
… “We fill up at a town called Unity and down the hot black road, through the sagebrush we go. .
…. Well, those were the commonest setbacks I can think of: out-of-sequence reassembly, intermittent failure and parts problems. But although setbacks are the commonest gumption traps they’re only the external cause of gumption loss.”Time now to consider some of the internal gumption traps that operate at the same time.
…. As the course description of gumptionology indicated, this internal part of the field can be broken down into three main types of internal gumption traps: those that block affective understanding, called "value traps"; those that block cognitive understanding, called "truth traps"; and those that block psychomotor behavior, called "muscle traps." The value traps are by far the largest and the most dangerous group.
.... Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values.“ (Cont.Next)

Small Town of Unity, OR.
…Please carefully note that the ZMM Narrator. in mentioning the town name, implies the sense of Unity into his Gumption discussion. This is possibly another example of the previously mentioned “Metaphoric Bridge Connection” …

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