Matt, You touched upon two issues near and dear to my heart. The first issue is encapsulated by the aphorism, "metaphysics ain't for sissies"
It takes a cool hand and a brave heart to face one's fundaments, to trot them out for universal criticism and disaprobation. So good on you, for dealing so openly and honestly with this clearly and well, describing what we do here, and what is at stake. The second issue, is related to the first and is illuminated by another of my (ahem) famous sayings, "Quality can only be defined in Experience" > What's the best way to write about Pirsig? > > What I mean by "defined in Experience" is the comparison of my experience with yours and others - the Intersubjective realization of Quality process. When Quality in your life is especially noticed, and you do your best at communicating that experience, and I read your communication with empathy, I KNOW what you mean, even though we can't completely define the Quality that you experience. Thus our process is an infinite one and I really like what Steve said about it, and your response: Steve said: [Quality] is undefined because it is inexhaustably describable. Matt: This is awesome because it never occurred to me to gloss Quality's undefinition this way. That seems exactly right to me. That our project is not a negative process (jumping all over people who define Quality wrongly, or proving to them the impossibility of their endeavors) but a positive one - constantly defining and reifying Quality, always getting closer, but never exhausting the possibilities of what can be said. Smilin' John 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/md/archives.html
