So here's probably the first debate we'll have on DQU, wherein I bring Pirsigian insight into the situation: Loss of accreditation -how to get it back.
My argument is that we don't want it back. Ironic, isn't it. I thought of suggesting a midnight raid to steal it, and then posting guards to keep it, but I doubt anybody who hasn't read ZAMM would get my point. Thank goodness for you guys! My point is that we don't want accreditation because that confers obeisance to the dominant paradigm and what we want to accomplish is freedom from the dominant paradigm. Let's compare two different doctoral programs - Oxford and DQU. Now a degree from Oxford has a lot of status and power conferred. Well, maybe not a "lot". It depends probably, I'd have to ask Dr. Ant. But does it teach you how to survive? Build a fire from scratch? Kill a deer and preserve the meat and hide? A graduate degree from DQ does all that and more, besides conferring tribal identity and an eternal dwelling place. Here's how it works: DQU is to be set up as a medicine wheel of healing - a circle. The circles are divided into twelve equal sections, with a center carved out of the middle. Each section of the center consists of 12 acres which is carefully guarded from any european-SOMish influences. It is holy ground. No pictures. No cameras. No objective anthros examining the quaint rites of native peoples. It's a circle with nothing but hands, hearts and minds trained to honor the land and each other in sacred relationships learned from tribal elders. To successfully graduate a person must first live and learn for at least a year in the inner circle surrounding the center, as part of a tribe- one of the twelve At the end of that year, those in the inner circle may enter the center where they dwell for another year's time where they survive without any interaction with the outside world. They survive communally, according to the old ways to the best of their ability. It's a tough program. If you get sick, you die. Well it probably wouldn't be that extreme. You can leave, but If you leave you fail and your tribe loses status and is ashamed. Since we don't have the teeming game or freedom of hunter gatherers anymore, the subsistance of the center is dependent upon the support and care of the tribal circle. That is, the inner circle preparing for the next year supports the center with gifts of appropriate food and fuel. No more than 12 people enter the center in any year, so that ideally, 144 people inhabit 144 acres with a well thought communal structure of proper proportions of healers, workers, herders, planters, builders. This is aided by the fact that each of the twelve tribes surrounding the center have their specialties. This stems from the overall structure of DQU, which consists of tribal colleges. Certain tribes have certain specialties - some in agriculture, some in communications, some in healing and health care, some in construction. To enter the center (the doctoral program) you must first have a degree conferred from a tribal college which will theoretically grant you one specialty and a broad range of skills guaranteed to to make you self-sufficient as possible. The mix of these tribal skills is the chief value of DQU - the diversity in unity. In subsequent years, the only ones able to enter and leave the center at will are the successful graduates of the center. There's more, but that's the rough outline of what I envision so far. Now back to my point. Dr. Carl with a degree from Oxford can probably find a job teaching somewhere, but will always be dependent upon the good wishes of a certain social matrix of power and prestige - a matrix of faulty composition since it has a genetic defect in it's metaphysical underpinnings. Dr. Carl with a degree conferred from DQU obtains eternal tribal affiliation and connection to the land and the planet which is a form of biological and social security which cannot be obviated by mere circumstance of world-wide economic collapse. Dr. Carl from Oxford perpetuates the paradigm. Dr. Carl from DQU begins a new paradigm without needing to overthrow the old. I was gonna explain this to squonk, before he went off and dissolved into a pool of tears, but nevermind now. 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/
