Hi Matt and all, There may be a method to my madness! "Whim" follows a direction. Evolution embodies direction. Evolution is understood in markers along the way. A question for MOQ metaphysics is how can an indefinable be a marker? I know the indefinable and it gives me a sense of direction if I acknowledge the direction to which it is pointing. Evolution does the pointing, but conceptualizing and following evolution turns me inside out when I look to where I am to determine who I am. Logic follows markers to evolution.
Joe On 10/20/11 3:03 PM, "Matt Kundert" <[email protected]> wrote: > This way of stating the the hero's journey, as one into oneself, I think > more effectively let's us see the real problem with seeing a divorce > from the heroic quest for Dynamic Quality in the Spirit Realm and > "the standpoint of normal waking consciousness": it's the problem of > cigarettes burning down into your knuckles. Pirsig could quite have > replied that he was in quest of something more important than the > ephemera of friends, family, and jobs. And he would've been right. > It is more important, or rather _bigger_, in some sense, and it gives > sense to the notion of _sacrifice_ that comes along with the hero's > job. But the rhetoric of heroism--which Pirsig's scene quite > effectively deflates--is best theorized by Emerson, who called for the > Oversoul, yet at the same time remarked darkly, "I shun father and > mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would > write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat > better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in > explanation." "Whim" was Emerson's word for the indeterminacy of > DQ/degeneracy. 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
