[Marsha]
My heart is aching for the people in Japan. ... The question 'Why?'
sticks in my throat and I choke.
[Arlo]
The inorganic level operates with indifference (or more precisely,
with unknowning) towards the biological (and social, intellectual)
level. On the inorganic level, all that occurred were inorganic
patterns pursing "betterness" from their vantage.
When most people ask "why?", there is some assumption that inorganic
patterns MUST be operating with some recognition for, or
consideration of, biological, social and intellectual patterns. They do not.
The inorganic level is blind to levels above it. And so conflicts
occur when inorganic patterns, pursuing Quality just like every other
pattern, come into conflict with higher levels patterns pursuing
their own Quality.
The only MOQ answer here, I think, would be "The tsunami and
earthquakes occurred because within the inorganic level it was better
that they occurred than not."
We may like to think that inorganic patterns would act with respect
for biological/social/intellectual patterns of value, but they are
blind to these.
To ask, "why did a tsunami occur that killed so many people?", for
example, is to confuse two or more levels. Consider it asked this
way, "why did the inorganic pattern destroy the biological pattern?".
This question is nonsensical from within a MOQ, because the inorganic
pattern does not have any awareness/conception/recognition/whatever
for the biological pattern, and "why" assumes an awareness of sorts
that does not exist.
Why did the tsunami occur? Inorganic patterns of value responding to Quality.
Why did the people die? These biological patterns of value could not
exist within the changed inorganic context wherein they existed, and
where unable to move to a better context before being destroyed.
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