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Title: Do not touch!
Review: 'Lila' simply serves to demonstrate that Pirsig has now taken himself far too seriously and fallen hook line and sinker for his own muddled morality. How anyone can so completely misrepresent western philosophy with (seemingly) a straight face is beyond me. Like Linford Christie at the Olympic games thinking, to the detriment of everyone else, that he is above being disqualified for two false starts; like scary spice who thinks she can forge a solo career despite being tone deaf; like so many other pretentious 'stars' who get ideas above their station; Pirsig has flicked two fingers up at 2000 years of philosophy, totally ignored what they actually say, preferring to invent arguments for his own ends, and put forward a so called Metaphysics of Quality, which is so unoriginal, boring and misguided that one wonders what his motivation is. If these ideas were presented as an academic paper, any professor worth his salt would throw them in the trash can and quite right too.
