Status Updates From Zen and the Art of Motorcyc...

It’s giving Moby-Dick, except Transcendental religiosity is Zen Buddhism; motorcycles are the Pequod; rationality is the White Whale; and Ishmael and Ahab may be the same person.

The tone/style is very 60s-70s, a continuation of Steinbeck-like prose, with Beat Gen navel-gazing. Very readable and enjoyable, thus far.

For a 50 year old book, it's still very relevant to the current day and age: "The Chautauquas [a traveling tent show] were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me that the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep."

Did someone say TikTok brain rot?