In a message dated 12/4/2007 3:07:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's a playground of value. Don't you realized what that means? Be aware and value what is good. Ok, say I think a certain Mozart symphony has Quality, i.e., it reveals quality to me. All of my feelings and instincts tell me that it is a "good" piece of music. One day I play it ten times (!) and by the end, I'm so thoroughly sick of the piece that I probably won't dig it out for another year. Have I tired of "quality?" If it's just my personal reaction, then surely I should be able to overcome my weariness with the work, since recognizing Quality is all about letting go of one's preconceived notions. dmb says: As we saw in the quote Bo posted, the thought experiment, removing Quality to see how the world would be effected, results in the loss of the fine arts. We'd still be able to distinquish a wall from a painting, but not a good wall from a bad wall or a good painting from a bad one. In such a world we'd probably still have walls but the loss of quality would make the arts into a pointless exercise in changing a thing's shape for no reason at all. Walls function as a barrier to the outside but art's function is predicated on a sense of quality such that they couldn't function without it. Without quality in the world, there'd be no reason NOT to eat the same dry, tasteless food pellets at every meal - like a dog. Why would we be able to distinguish a wall and a painting but not two paintings? I thought Quality was the ability to distinguish items. **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
