Marsha said to dmb:
I'm sure you think your paraphrasing is always correct, but it is mentally
constructed from your own biases. And thergrouping together of your
paraphrased comments out of context make them sound like attributes of DQ. And
please don't miss explaining your quote: "DQ degenerates into chaos." when in
LILA RMP states: "But Dynamic Quality is not structured and yet it is not
chaotic.". I think RMP would have paraphrased this statement differently.
dmb responds with textual evidence to the contrary (not that it will make any
difference):
"Life can't exist on Dynamic Quality alone. It has no staying power. To cling
to Dynamic Quality alone apart from any static patterns is to cling to CHAOS.
He saw that much can be learned about Dynamic Quality by studying what it is
not rather than futilely trying to define what it is.
Static quality patterns are dead when they are exclusive, when they demand
blind obedience and suppress Dynamic change. But static patterns, nevertheless,
provide a necessary stabilizing force to protect Dynamic progress from
DEGENERATION. Although Dynamic Quality, the Quality of freedom, creates this
world in which we live, these patterns of static quality, the quality of order,
preserve our world. Neither static nor Dynamic Quality can survive without the
other."
What would be a good way to paraphrase Pirsig's description of static patterns
as a necessary stabilizing force and the quality of order that preserves our
world? You think this stable order is best "paraphrased" as an ever-changing
cloud, do you? I think that use of language is just plain stupid and the idea
conspicuously at odds with the text.
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