[David] The 'Cosmic' Lila described here, like the Lila in the book clearly do not value 'staticness'. To them static is evil. They all follow another kind of good which is completely different to static good..
[Arlo] In LILA, Pirsig points out the Hippie movement failed because: The Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just two directions to go: toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality. The revolutionaries of the sixties thought that since both are anti-social, and since both are anti-intellectual, why then they must both be the same. That was the mistake. Lila, the character, also rejects static patterns, but how do you see her trajectory as being different than the hippies? How do you see her pursuit as avoid the mistake of the hippies? How do you see Lila, the character, pursing Dynamic Quality but the Hippies pursuing biological quality? Can you offer me reasons to support your implied position that Lila was a mystic of some sort, and not, like the hippies, confusing biological and Dynamic Quality. [David] This Dynamic Quality - good and evil - is supported by the Code of Art in the MOQ. [Arlo] Can you give me examples in LILA where Lila pursues a "Code of Art"? [David] "This last, the Dynamic-static code, says what's good in life isn't defined by society or intellect or biology. What's good is freedom from domination by any static pattern, but that freedom doesn't have to be obtained by the destruction of the patterns themselves." [Arlo] Doesn't this apply to the Hippies as well? Why would Pirsig characterize their 'freedom from domination by any static pattern' as a mistake, and if it was a mistake, how does Lila avoid that mistake? 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
