Comment On Talia's Post

I think it is interesting how Talia and I have the same type of feeling toward Pirsig and his writing. The more i read, the more i also become uncomfortable. We have been taught to think that we are learning each and every day, but as Talia mentioned, are we really learning anything? She is right when she says that anything can be disproved by another scientific theory. It is very hard to get that thought through my head. For example, we have grown up to believe that life and society is a certain way. However, the more you think about it, at least in my eyes, the more you tend to realize that it is all made up and b.s. I think Talia would agree with me when i say that everything is made up, that nothing is real or concrete. Everything around us, whether it is an object, a subject or a mere thought, it is all a figment of our imagination. We react to certain things because of beliefs or views we have been "taught" before.  Talia is right again when she states that institutions are holding us back. During class, i understood everything we discussed, but i could not really see how going away from the institutions would bring true success. I still think that people can be happy while living under the institutions, but after reading Pirsig, i think that success itself is also a creation of our mind, an imagination. You can not really measure success, like you cannot measure knowledge.