“‘The trouble with the objective approach,’ Dusenberry said, ‘is that you don’t *learn* much that way… I’ve seen these ‘objective’ workers come on the [Native American] reservations,’ he said, ‘and get absolutely nowhere… When a person’s objective his attitude is remote. He gets a sort of stony 1/

“‘…distant look on his face. The Indians see that… don’t like it. They don’t know where in hell these ‘objective’ anthros are at… so they clam up and don’t say anything… Or they’ll just tell them nonsense… which of course a lot of the anthros believe at first because they got it ‘objectively’… 2/

“‘… and the Indians sometimes laugh at them behind their backs.’” —Pirsig, *Lila*

guy who gets on here to defend the honor of the bullshit people have to do to get/keep their jobs

Jeff probably also thinks the point of therapy isn't to win by making the therapist cry