All of You
Some of what is said here may seem unimportant or elementary to you, some of
it however may not, so - MOQers bare with me on this one:
Some time ago me and two friends were at a small hostel in the North of New
Zeeland, we were sitting in the garden and eating our cheap, poorly cooked
meals when a class of American students joined us in the afternoon sun. The
three of us had been sitting talking about the various things we always talk
about, the future, love and the general nature of the world and our place in
it, but after a while we all trailed of as we couldn't help but listening to
the loud conversations taking place across the lawn.
Our fellow travellers where arguing, laughing and speaking in each
others
mouths, clearly a group of people that knew exarchate quite well. But as we
sat there we was dumbfounded over one especially strange phenomena. There
seemed to be no thought behind the words spoke whatsoever. That is, during
the two hours we sat there in the sun, no analysis of any kind accompanied
the statements of observation that was all the Americans conversation was
constructed of. It was ALL statement. "I did that, then he did that and we
reacted thus" Statements of facts, statements of reaction to things
observed. No analysis whatsoever. We marvelled over this with mixed
feelings. It was clearly a nice group of people who were having a lot of
fun, and on some level we envied that, while at the same time we were
feeling alienated because of the things that was being stated. On some level
is the key here.
Because later we would discuss this further, being one of those groups
of
people who like to sit around with some cigarettes and coffee and philosophy
in our own lazy manner when we have the chance, and we concluded that the
feeling of both aversion and some kind of envy had been with us in many
situations such as this - mostly on parties and such.
It stuck me later what the answer to all of this was. Here were two
sets of
Good, two sets of Quality competing against one another. Reasoning is an
attribute to the 4th level, that seems clear, and the conclusion I have
drawn is that people can be more or less dominated by any of the levels.
When we sit around, reasoning about things in general, analyzing, we are
following our inclination to the 4th level, we would seem to be individuals
that are far more dominated by the 4th, reasoning level then any other. The
Americans in question was all consumed by the social level, everything they
did, thought and said was done in service to the social level, of which
reasoning is not part. I have no doubt that most of them would be able to
reason just fine, had they deemed it a Good thing - however - they didn't
need to, because in the situation they where, social values were the
dominant level. The social level also has an immune system towards
reasoning, and it's summoned up in the word "nerd". Nerd means "of low
social Quality" and they are right!
All of us will occasionally let our biological interpretations of what
is
Good run free - most notably in bars and such, but we know how Low Quality
it would be to let this overwrite our social interpretations of Good - or
our intellectual. Most of the time. Depending on how strongly one is
dominated by a given level though.
My point though is that the group of Americans DID think, they did use
their brain capacity fully, for they were in no means stupid, but everything
they did with their brains was done from a social view of Quality. Maybe
they could reason fine, as I said, but they didn't. Now, at present time,
rationality is continuing it's crusade against the lover levels of Quality,
and it is doing it by perhaps the most efficient weapon ever: school. So
today, for a person grown up in a western country it might very well be
impossible not to know of rationality, of the basic Subject/Object ideas,
but it IS possible not to service that level, and to be a totally social
being - a biological might be possible to, if it weren't for the fact that
the social and intellectual levels have a tendency to lock anybody who does
so in a small room for a few years.
From a MOQ perspective, it is all just different ways of reacting to
Quality, but that is the way we see it - if we truly do.
I put it to you that the different value patterns are essentially all
different ways of which to respond to and interpret Quality, and within
every level, that specific way to react to Quality is all that matters. This
is beeing said from a MOQ perspective, who in this since is so fundamentally
different from all the other levels that it has the potential to bring about
a new level of it's own. It will most likely not happen in the nearest 500
years, the first step would probably be for rationality to gain total
supremacy of the social level, but this all fits, and that's the important
part of it.
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Chris
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