Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry of Values emphasizes on numerous life lessons, known as chautauquas, all throughout the book. Pirsig utilizes these chautauquas in order to portray to his readers that life's ultimate moments are reasoned through our own actions, such as those developed upon emotional and valuable commitments (hence motorcycle maintenance). He highlights that the monumental crisis of reason, in which both technology and our own personal issues are the problem. By doing so Pirsig challenges our cultural understandings, we know as the world and aims to show us that our emotional and moral commitment can be controlled by the simplicity of technology. Thus, he summarizes that it is our
