Beyond the Silt
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The eternal question "What's new?" may seem engaging, but it leads only to "an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow." Instead, Robert Pirsig suggests we should concern ourselves with =="What is best?"—a question that cuts deeply rather than broadly, moving the silt downstream.== Unlike rigid eras of human history where "best" was merely dogma, our current moment offers possibility for change. Yet paradoxically, our common consciousness is "obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction," flooding lowlands and isolating highlands with no purpose beyond fulfilling its own momentum. In choosing depth over novelty, we might reclaim the purpose our collective thinking has lost.