> > > > dmb says: > Love must be a species of Good, a kind of Quality. But if we tried to > substitute the terms in the hot stove example, for example, it would be a > bit silly to say the negative face of love gets you off the stove.
You think it'd be silly for me to say, after sitting on a hot stove, "man, I hate it when I do that"? Because personally, it seems to me the most obvious and logical response my intellect can make. It's my dislike of pain that get me off hot stoves. It's my love of ice cream that keeps me lickin'. It's not complicated for me. I'm a simple guy. > I think Quality is more like whatever aesthetic value presents itself at > the cutting edge of experience and this immediate value force is often > unlovely. Well then, like I've said before, you need to get yourself some better experience. More ice cream licking and less hot stove sitting. Then you'll know what *I'm* talking about. > The idea, I think, is that this pre-conceptual aesthetic charge is supposed > to guide experience and it can only do that by being attuned to the actual > situation. Following the Good sometimes means going further into that > situation, making some kind of adjustment to the situation and sometimes it > means getting the hell outta there. Sometimes the cutting edge of experience > will raise the hairs on the back of neck. The idea here is simply that those > "feelings" constitute real information, that they are a very important part > of the overall cognitive process that gets you off the stove or helps you > dodge that rotten tomato > . > > The other main reason we can't equate Quality and Love is that it sounds > too Hallmarky. > ah, well. Here's the deal. I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day. I cut down trees, I pick wildflowers, and go to the lavatory. On wednesdays I go shopping, and have buttered scones, for tea. The point being, when you're all raw and earthy, you don't care what seems poofy to modern society, you just follow what you love and you call it as you see it. I don't worship kitsch, but I ain't afraid of it neither. I bet Normal Rockwell would have done good porn. He had that eye for interesting detail, ya know? 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/
