> Platt to Andre: > Or, it says we understand DQ differently. Maybe you are surprised and > stopped in your tracks every moment of every day by DQ. I gladly admit > that > I'm not. > > Andre: > Hi Platt, > Maybe we do understand DQ differently maybe not. All I am getting at is > that > at each moment of the day we have choices.
Agree. > That we do, or do not allow > ourselves to exercise these choices depends on our static patterns. I would say rather that most of time our static patterns determine our choices that we make each moment of the day. > This has nothing to do with DQ, everything with ourselves. Agree. Ourselves = our static patterns. DQ comes to us as a surprise. "Static quality is what your normally expect." (Lila, 9) > And that you are glad not to be 'stopped in your tracks' every moment of > every day tells me you are probably quite a contented man. In some things, yes. In others, no. I'm certainly not content with the financial losses I've suffered recently. Not good. Pirsig's warning constantly haunts me: "Now that intellect was in command of society for the first time in history, was this the intellectual pattern it was going to run society with?: (Lila, 22) In fact, Chapters 22 and 24 of LIla are not exactly designed to engender content. However, I'm content we agree on much. Platt 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/
