Imagine explaining subjectivity to someone, a person, with only an objective sense of self. A hypothetically purely rational being.
Or, again, imagine explaining subjective intuitions to somebody who somehow supposes their subjective intuitions to only be objective reasonings.
When I became aware that others lack or are incapable of accessing or perhaps are unwilling to access these apparently normal ranges of human experience, subjective and objective, I became far more cautious to express my sentiments of quality. Indeed, I mostly stopped expressing them, because they were met with simple incomprehension.
So original seeing may be as Pirsig says a direct experience, or indeed that direct experience may simply be an inexamined presumption.
It seems to me the phenomenological subjectivity itself is the fundament. But who knows?
Good question! Thankyou. I mean that I cannot imagine the conversation happening successfully.
And that challenges a redefinition of success. It may be that being heard is enough, for me, to feel equipped to speak out if strings later do get applied.
And it also suggests the strong possibility that I am being defensive—that in fact those suggestions and ideas may be extremely or fairly helpful. In fact, it’s probable they will be.