[Marsha] I not only agree with Mark that language is a kind of prison, but I also think patterns are a kind of prison.
[Arlo] The idea that, "man is born free but is everywhere in chains" was never true. There are no chains more vicious than the chains of biological necessity into which every child is born. Society exists primarily to free people from these biological chains. It has done that job so stunningly well intellectuals forget the fact and turn upon society with a shameful ingratitude for what society has done. (Pirsig) In the same manner, intellect exists to free people from social chains. A MOQ recognizes the necessity of maintain foundation, however, and not dismantling the stable patterns of value that support the emerging agency made possible by structure. You can respond to your hunger with far greater efficacy than a mouse or an amoeba. Humans, being more than simply biological patterns, farm, store food, have built great networks of distribution, developed sophisticated recipes from a wide range of ingredients and share these with others. But if you think the mouse or amoeba is somehow 'freer' than you, less imprisoned, or otherwise unencumbered by chains, then by all means, Marsha, I fully encourage you to abandon all patterns. 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
