Is there any more appropriate subject for understanding the MoQ than a dialogue on Love? What is Quality except caring? What is Quality except Love? What is Phaedrus but the name of a dialogue on Love? It's a recurring theme.
Define Love, has always been one of my bugaboos - tossed out like it is an impossibility and thus a show stopper every time. Narcissism doesn't even believe in Love and refuses to admit any such thing exists. But Love can be defined. All it takes is the proper intellectual tool. Enter, the MoQ. For the common way we mean, Love is the highest quality on the social level. Love as we usually mean it doesn't really exist biologically. Biological beings procreate and form alliances in a pragmatic way that fails to capture the emotion we express when we say "LOVE". Love is an emotion containing loyalty, bonding and caring for the other that comes from a social reality most apparent in mammals. An emotion. Now, when Arlo talks about the elevated works of art and intellect that carry him off about love, and says that these give his love a superior content to a dog, then he is mistaking the high intellectual quality of a great work of analogy, with the simple reality a dog already possesses. What gives works of art their high-falutin' reputation is their proximity to the basic emotional truth that we all sense in ourselves and such a high-quality work of art helps us to understand the commonality of this emotion, but we are still just talking analogy. Intellectual apprehension adds nothing to the reality of love. Although it can detract. It can get men so fond of abstraction that they forget basic reality and take their abstract games as more important than or superior too the root real emotion. That's a shame. I used to get ticked off at other boys, when I was younger, who made fun of my love for horses by saying horses are stupid. What they meant by this is that when they tried to dominate a horse, the horse ignored what they wanted to do and just did what it wanted to do. But horses aren't stupid, anybody who gets to know them well realizes this. Neither are dogs or ducks or cockroaches. Intellect is a human attribute and it comes in handy for lots of things. But a sense of smell is also a good mental tool and animals don't think humans are stupid because we're stupid when it comes to smell. Well, maybe they do, but they are just too polite to mention it. Humans are stupid when they judge non-human nature anthropocentrically and assert the highest value from a self-aggrandizing PoV. May the love of dog be with you. John the Deep Ecologist -- ------------ Self is simply Choice, so choose good ------------ 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/
