Thanks Margaret, for your post. It was thought-provoking. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Andre Broersen <[email protected]>wrote:
> Margaret the lurker: > One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:? If we > do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the > world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most > beautiful instruments ever made.... How many other things are we missing? > > Andre: > Hi Margaret, I guess my answer to your question is: lots of things. But if > we all stop and attend to Dynamic Quality events all the time ( I wonder if > this is what Bodvar refers to by DQ junkies??) the bread won't get baked, > the trains won't ride, the stock-market will crash, the dishes won't get > done and the kids won't get fed, etc, etc. > The proper functioning of our society is predicated on routine and > predictability, hence static patterns. > It's like we might have this very highly evolved intellectual quality painting, but without a social frame which to attach it and display it, we can't appreciate it as it should be appreciated. AND, as Mapplethorpe proved, we can put a sufficiently fancy social frame around a turd, and attract much more attention than is warranted. Interesting. I remember when I first came on this list, I asked the functional difference between being rich and poor, if I'm an art afficianado who is poor and married to a great but unknown artist, the quality of my artistic environment is unaffected by the arbitrary value that society places upon my walls and viewing space. I don't remember who answered my query, except I didn't like their answers. ;) > We all follow our static patterns, we all do what is reasonable and > sometimes we try to do what is good. Many people I talk to are > conscientious > heart, head and hands people within these static patterns. Being reliable > is > a social PoV. Come to work 45 mins late, you may be forgiven. But do it > regularly, intermittently at the beginning, half-way or the end of the day > too often and the job will be taken away from you. > > I hope the baker derives his/her sense of quality by making quality bread, > the train driver ditto, etc, etc. > > No doubt in the pre-technology days, crowds would have gathered in awe at such great music... but today? When I've got the same music, as good or better, streaming through my ipod and straight into my brain, who needs the actual substance of flesh and wood? Man and Violin are there to produce music, which I can get for free<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-RTI-H2oI&feature=related> . I'm just pleased at how much money the guy made, considering... 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/
