Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Read this in the '70s and became consumed by the idea of doing my own auto repairs and went out and bought a special wrench for removing spark plugs and couldn't get one of them to turn and that was the end of that.  Pirsig said something about rationality having a genetic defect and that this helps, in his view, account for the multiple negatives afflicting humanity in these modern times and I can't help but wonder if this isn't an underlying cause for the slow-motion climate change catastrophe.