At 03:18 PM 12/4/2007, you wrote: > >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. >
Greetings again Redsky, When the Mozart symphony is good, listen to it. When you're tired of listening to it, stop listening. Quality (static/Dynamic) is a process. It changes. > > >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. Without quality (value) there would be no recognition of inside or outside, so there would be no walls. Marsha 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/
