More thoughts, Ron, on Dr. DQ that occured while painting: A doctorate from an unaccredited university is usually known as "diploma mill". But if your true goal is learning, as opposed to status, you don't care about such social disparagement.
However, using this freedom carries with it the responsibility to actually make the degree meaningful and not just hand 'em out to any idiot who can survive away from society for a year. And on the other hand, for a person who is truly seeking, truly into researching an idea, a sort of cloister away from all distractions where you have nothing to do all day but talk to others in the community about your ideas and compare, analyze and dissect is probably the ideal incubator for the evolution of high quality ideas. Then, when the year is up and you have access to writing materials and books, you can submit the evolved ideas to a tribal-doctoral commitee which grants the degree. Thus you have to do more than prove that you can live in a self-sufficient community apart from western civilization, you have to prove you can come up with some original ideas while doing so. And a brief survey of historical movements shows us that nearly all great intellectual or artistic evolution occurs in the context of a community like this. I'm thinking of two recent examples, the Stanford Writer's group that nurtured Kesey, McMurtry, Beagle and others and that English round table that included CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien where they read each other's work and commented and shared ideas. It is out of these human crucibles of commual support that individual excellence is refined. 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/
