After posting about the new Ducati Multistrada 1200, I ran across this article about Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) and modern man's inability to fix his own stuff.
'WE NEED a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashioned gumption," wrote Robert Pirsig in 1974's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This seminal book is ostensibly about a motorcycle road trip but the narrative is primarily a framework for his philosophical reflections, centering on the view that modern "man is separated from what he does".
I used to do a lot of my own work, even though I'm not a mechanic. From rebuilding the top end of a 1980 Honda CB 650 to changing out the exhaust manifolds on a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder, I've done my share. These days, it's all I can do to change my own oil.
Hand me that cybernetic autocrowbar, eh?
Update: I didn't realize it at first, but Seventh Sanctum has quite a few "generators" for "random characters, plots, ideas, and more to use in your writing, games, art and more." It's where I got my Ultrasonic Transwrench. Hey, you didn't think that was real, did you?
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