Arlo: What I could say, if you'd prefer, is that "all things tend towards preference". If this was not true, the cosmos would be a chaotic swirl of randomness and nothing more. This does not mean we shouldn't challenge our habits, and be open to change. Certainly not.
Andre: Hi Arlo, Krimel, Platt and All: Not sure if I understand you correctly here. Yes, 'all things tend towards preference' but 'achieved' preference needs to be preserved, latched. As Pirsig argues; 'A Dynamic advance is meaningless unless it can find some static pattern with which to protect itself from degeneration back to the conditions that existed before the advance was made. Evolution can't be a continuous forward movement. It must be a process of ratchet-like steps in which there is a Dynamic movement forward up some new incline and then, if the result looks successful, a static latching-on of the gain that has been made: then another dynamic advance, then another static latch.'(Lila, p 150) Evolution is one wonderful example of this process. But you can also apply it to your own personal growth ( not wanting to sound too fluffy). Continuous 'absorption' (not exposure) of dynamic quality will drive a person nuts (IMHO), and if if does not have that effect on the person, it will certainly have it on the persons around him/her. (Refer to your 'imagine' paragraph). I do not want to go through the process of having to 're-invent' my world every morning. That's what the analogues are for. I remember the first time I walked through the Musee D'Orsay, and also The Louvre and the Van Gogh museum here in Amsterdam. After a while it became 'too much'. Such dynamic stuff, but I needed time to 'integrate' all this dynamism, latch it, give it a place, so that , next time I could experience 'the same' with renewed, enriched 'eyes'. I agree with you; we all need routine, predictability, assurance and re-assurance. This does not mean that DQ is not available to us all the time to challenge us, to suspend, alter or shatter our routines. The extent to which we are comfortable in our routines will determine the extent to which we allow ourselves to respond/ be open to DQ. If Platt argues that he doesn't experience DQ all the time or that he doesn't have a deep, mystical DQ experience (that it is rare and not available to just anyone) says more about Platt than DQ. IMHO Andre 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/
