For Platt
"That's what neither the socialists nor the capitalists ever got
figured out. From a static point of view socialism is more moral
than capitalism. It's a higher form of evolution. It is an
intellectually guided society, not just a society that is guided
by mindless traditions. That's what gives socialism its drive.
But what the socialists left out and what has all but killed their
whole undertaking is an absence of a concept of indefinite Dynamic
Quality. You go to any socialist city and it's always a dull place
because there's little Dynamic Quality.
On the other hand the conservatives who keep trumpeting about the
virtues of free enterprise are normally just supporting their own
self-interest. They are just doing the usual cover-up for the rich
in their age-old exploitation of the poor.
Some of them seem to sense
there is also something mysteriously virtuous in a free enterprise system
and you can see them struggling to put it into words but they don't have
the metaphysical vocabulary for it any more than the socialists do."
-Lila chptr sumpthinerother
"New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
Always changing. Always changing for the worse, it seems, but then right
in the middle of the worse comes this new Dynamic thing that nobody ever
heard of before and the worse is forgotten because this new Dynamic thing
(which is also getting worse) has taken its place. What looks like hell
always turns out to be something else.
When something new and Dynamic wants to come into the world it often looks
like hell, but it can get born in New York. It can happen. It seems like it
could happen anywhere but that's not so. There has to be a certain kind of
people who can look at it and say 'Hey, wait a second! That's good!' without
having to look over their shoulder to see if somebody else is saying the same
thing. That's rare. This is one of the few places in the world where people
don't ask whether something's been approved somewhere else.
That, Phaedrus thought, is how the Metaphysics of Quality explains the
incredible contrasts of the best and the worst one sees here. Both exist
here in such terrific intensity because New York's never been committed
to any preservation of its static patterns. It's always ready to change.
Whether you are or not. That is what creates its horror and that is what
creates its power. Its strength is its looseness. It's the freedom to be
so awful that gives it the freedom to be so good.
And so things keep happening here all the time that have this Dynamic
sparkle that saves it all. In the midst of everything that's wrong, it sparkles"
-Lila, ahh hunt for like I did
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