[Platt quotes Pirsig to show that "Dynamic" = "good"] "After many months of thinking about it, he was left with a reward of two terms: Dynamic good and static good..." (Lila, 9)
[Arlo] If we interpret this quote the way you intend, then there is no "bad". Both DQ and SQ are "good", and if everything is either DQ or SQ, then everything is "good". But the issue here is, as always, one of "intent". I contend there is none. DQ has no "purpose" or no "plan" is manipulating, coordinating, or ordering any "grand scheme". DQ is "unintentional consequences", it is something unexpected that is grasped upon after-the-fact. It is not a "God" that has created and ordered the Cosmos to produce "man". We are lucky to be here, not planned to be, we are an accident, not placed here to "witness the splendor of God (Essence, or Qualigod). Each "stage" in evolution is an "AHA!" not a "And Now Qualigod Makes Man! Poof!". We were an unplanned appearance that DQ grapsed onto, not one it planned to make. It may make you feel all warm and fuzzy to think Qualigod made you just special, and it may give you feelings of purpose to think your role in the cosmos is to masturbate the ego of a needy and vain "source" (as it does for Ham), but all it would take is one single asteroid, following inorganic quality, to exterminate humankind, and DQ won't do a thing to stop it; can't, in fact, nor would it care, as it will just latch onto the next happenstance pattern that appears and move forward without us. 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/
