Platt to Andre: Evidence please. And while you're at, what quotes have I given "out of context?."
Andre: I'll mention only a few Platt because they center around the same issues all the time. I asked you about keeping things 'in the spirit of the MoQ' to which you respond: it's freedom'. Within the MoQ context 'Freedom' doesn't mean anything'. Within the MoQ it means Dynamic Quality. 'That's what neither the socialists nor the capitalists ever got figured out'. (LILA, p224). 'A free-market is a dynamic institution...what makes the market place work is Dynamic Quality' which 'can never be contained by any intellectual formula'. My slant on this Platt, is that uncontrolled, uncontaind DQ leads to degeneration. It needs to be latched somewhere, somehow. (I think this climate discussion has some role in this as well). 'From a static point of view socialism is more moral than capitalism. It's a higher form of evolution. It's an intellectually guided society, not just a society guided by mindless traditions. That's what gives socialism its drive' (LILA, ibid). Again, my interpretation of this Platt, is that these 'mindless traditions' (including the sanctifying role of the Church) is the 'usual cover-up for the rich in their age-old exploitation of the poor' Pirsig refers to, maintained by conservatives, fed by their own self-interest, who 'keep trumpeting about the virtues of free enterprise'.(LILA, p225). Perhaps the MoQ can be used as a means of reconciling these two approaches but you seem to be shutting any dialogue out, dismissing any challenge to your point of view/ representing your interest, as commie/ lefty/ conspiratorial etc, etc. As I mentioned to Marsha, any desparate clinging to static gains made (to the exclusion of DQ) will lead to degeneracy, any clinging to DQ without any latching leads to degeneracy. The balance is to be found in DQ/SQ. Which brings me back to my point above: you appear to shut out DQ advances/approaches to conservative static patterns. Anyway, probably water off a duck's back. Andre 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/
