It seems as though any static mechanism that is open to Dynamic Quality
must also be open to degeneracy to falling back to lower forms of quality.
This creates the problem of getting maximum freedom for the emergence of
Dynamic Quality while prohibiting degeneracy from destroying the evolutionary
gains of the past. Americans like to talk about all their freedom but they
think
it's disconnected from something Europeans often see in America: the degeneracy
that goes with the Dynamic.
It seems as though a society that is intolerant of all forms of degeneracy shuts
off its own Dynamic growth
and becomes static. But a society that tolerates all forms of degeneracy
degenerates.
Either direction can be dangerous. The mechanisms by which a balanced society
grows
and does not degenerate are difficult, if not impossible, to define.
How can you tell the two directions apart? Both oppose the status quo. Radical
idealists
and degenerate hooligans sometimes strongly resemble each other.
Jazz was generally considered degenerate music when it first appeared. 'Modern'
art was
considered degenerate.-lila ch17
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