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)
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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)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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What Happens When You Run 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)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Same Two Trees Higher Up.
“[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)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Same Two Trees Straight Up, Ever So Straight! 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.
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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)
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)
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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 mi 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 Giant Redwoods State Park!! Notice how he 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 Redwood Grove, It is Six Miles To the Next Town.
“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 corresponds to “desiccated …. dualistic reason“. I have also 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 Redwood Grove to Crescent City was six miles. On the way I looked for faded signs to photograph, but did not find many signs at all. My notes say “no advertising signs all the way to the city limit sign”! As far as I’m concerned, this is really good!.
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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] “ …. 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)
Entrance to Crescent City, CA.“
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On the Way Into Town, This Is the Best Example of 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 corresponds to Aristotle’s “desiccated …. dualistic reason.“
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Aristotle’s Dualistic Reason Is No Doubt Taught Here. Humanities and Social Sciences Classroom Building At The University of South Carolina Aiken.
[The Narrator next covers, in two pages, Phaedrus’s objections to Aristotle. He finishes that portion of the Chautauqua with following sentences] “[Phaedtus] …. saw [Aristotle]as a prototype for the many millions of self-satisfied and truly ignorant teachers throughout history who have smugly and callously killed the creative spirit of their students with this dumb ritual of analysis, this blind, rote, eternal naming of things. Walk into any of a hundred thousand classrooms today and hear the teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish "principles" and study "methods" and what you will hear is the ghost of Aristotle speaking down through the centuries—the desiccating lifeless voice of dualistic reason.“(Cont.Next)
Classroom Building, University of South Carolina at Aiken, Aiken, SC. I can assure you that the Narrator is exactly correct about his “teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish "principles" and study "methods"“ Aristotle was, no doubt, the one that started it. This classification system seems to be what works well for sciences. However, it is applied all too often in areas where inappropriate, destructive, and to the exclusion of other workable methods. This is also true for “"principles" and study "methods"“. These concerns are discussed extensively various places in ZMM.
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The Hospital Is Discerned Beyond the Windows. Phaedrus’s University of Chicago Classroom. Possibility Number One.
“The sessions on Aristotle were round an enormous wooden round table in a dreary room across the street from a hospital, where the late-afternoon sun from over the hospital roof hardly penetrated the window dirt and polluted city air beyond. Wan and pale and depressing. “(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. As near as I could determine, Cobb Hall is best choice as The University of Chicago building “across the street from a hospital“. Mr. Pirsig, in a letter to me stated that Cobb Lecture Hall is Phaedrus’s Classroom Building. I walked the hallways of Cobb and found that none of the classrooms now has round tables. They have evidently been replaced by rectangular tables formed into a larger open square as you see here and in my other photos of Cobb Lecture Hall.
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A Large Round Table With Somewhat of a Crack In It.
“During the middle of the hour he noticed that this enormous table had a huge crack that ran right across it near the middle. It looked as though it had been there for years, but that no one had thought to repair it. Too busy, no doubt, with more important things. At the end of the hour he finally asked, "May questions about Aristotle’s rhetoric be asked?"
"If you have read the material," he was told. He noticed in the eye of the Professor of Philosophy the same set he had seen the first day of registration. He took warning from it that he had better read the material very thoroughly, and did so.“(Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. I was not able to find any round tables in Cobb Lecture Hall, Phaedrus’s Classroom Building. However, I did find this and four other examples of huge round tables in the neighboring Social Science Research Building. In the above table you must look closely to see the crack in the reflected green illumination. However, as you can see, this table’s crack is not as bad as described by the Narrator. As viewed by the Narrator (and Phaedrus), the “huge crack“ symbolizes serious problems in the system of Aristotle, and corresponding serious problems in the way philosophy was being taught at U. Chicago.
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Dangerous Traffic Hazards, Made Worse By Rain, Require Careful Attention. This Corresponds To What Phaedrus Had To Do At The University of Chicago.
“The rain comes down more heavily now and we stop to snap on the face mask to the helmet. Then we go again at moderate speed. I watch for chuckholes, sand and grease slicks.“(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
Somewhere East of Crescent City, CA. The Narrator must watch for very real road hazards. Since these echo/symbolize the hazards Phaedrus must watch for at The University of Chicago, this brief switch to the ongoing travel is inserted here.
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Phaedrus’s Classroom Building. A View of Cobb Hall from Plaza In Front of the University of Chicago Medical Center This Medical Center Is Probably What the Narrator Called“The Hospital“.
“The next week Phædrus had read the material and was prepared to take apart the statement that rhetoric is an art because it can be reduced to a rational system of order. By this criterion General Motors produced pure art, whereas Picasso did not. If there were deeper meanings to Aristotle than met the eye this would be as good a place as any to make them visible. . But the question never got raised. Phædrus put up his hand to do so, caught a microsecond flash of malice from the teacher’s eye, but then another student said, almost as an interruption, "I think there are some very dubious statements here. ..
That was all he got out."“(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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A Closer View of Cobb Lecture Hall, Phaedrus Classroom Building from Hospital Plaza.
“[Another student had just raised an objection.] [That was all he got out.]
"Sir, we are not here to learn what you think!" hissed the Professor of Philosophy. Like acid. "We are here to learn what Aristotle thinks!" Straight in the face. "When we wish to learn what you think we will assign a course in the subject!"
Silence. The student is stunned. So is everyone else. .. But the Professor of Philosophy is not done. He points his finger at the student and demands, "According to Aristotle: What are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed?" .. More silence. The student doesn’t know. "Then you haven’t read it, have you?"“(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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An Even Closer View of Cobb Lecture Hall, Phaedrus’ Classroom Building from Hospital Plaza.
“And now, with a gleam that indicates he has intended this all along, the Professor of Philosophy swings his finger around and points it at Phædrus.
"You, sir, what are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed?" .. But Phædrus is prepared. "Forensic, deliberative and epideictic," he answers calmly. .. "What are the epideictic techniques?" .. "The technique of identifying likenesses, the technique of praise, that of encomium and that of amplification." .. "Yaaas—" says the Professor of Philosophy slowly. Then all is silent. . The other students looked shocked. They wonder what has happened. Only Phædrus knows, and perhaps the Professor of Philosophy. An innocent student has caught blows intended for him. “(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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