On Jun 16, 2011, at 6:22 PM, david buchanan wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Marsha:
I might state that progress may degenerate into chaos, or that static patterns
may degenerate into chaos, or that an individual as a collection of static
patterns may degenerate into chaos, but I don't think I would ever say that "DQ
degenerates into chaos."
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