> Platt to Andre: > Agree. Ourselves = our static patterns. DQ comes to us as a surprise. > "Static quality is what your normally expect." (Lila, 9) > > Andre: > My dear Platt, DQ does NOT come to us as a surprise!
Well, all I can do is refer you to Mr. Pirsig's written words:. "The first good, that made you want to buy the record, was Dynamic Quality. Dynamic Quality comes as a sort of surprise. What the record did was weaken for a moment your existing static patterns in such a way that the Dynamic Quality all around you shone through. It was free, without static forms. The second good, the kind that made you want to recommend it to a friend, even when you had lost your own enthusiasm for it, is static quality. Static quality is what you normally expect." (Lila, 9) > And I am afraid that twentieth century intellect is not in command of > society because it is totally out of touch with its parents. Again, I refer you to Mr. Pirsig: "From the perspective of a subject-object science, the world is a completely purposeless, valueless place. There is no point in anything. Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Everything just functions, like machinery. There is nothing morally wrong with being lazy, nothing morally wrong with lying, with theft, with suicide, with murder, with genocide. There is nothing morally wrong because there are no morals, just functions. "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) If you need more context may I suggest you read Chapter 22. > When we try to keep on doing what is right, we are following SQ. > When we try to keep on following what is good we are following DQ. > (R.M. Pirsig. 'On the Road'.) > > Just sorry to hear you have fallen victim to (apparently) doing the > right > thing, Platt. Both the right and the good are needed, Andre. Don't you agree? Recall that intellect is the keeper of individual "human rights" vs. society. Regards, 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/
