Arlo said to Djh.:
... I think morality lies in the path of sustained evolution. Or, to go back to
what I said earlier, morality is in rejection/creation within an evolutionary
system.
dmb says:
Yes! I think that protecting the ongoing evolutionary process is the basic
principle behind all of the MOQ's moral codes. It's a morality that protects
the possibility of betterness at every level. This same principle also demands
a balance between order and freedom, between the static and the Dynamic.
"As to which is more important, Dynamic or static, both are absolutely
essential, even when they are in conflict. As stated in LILA, without Dynamic
Quality an organism cannot grow. But without static quality an organism cannot
last. Dynamic liberals and radicals need conservatives to keep them from making
a mess of the world through unneeded change. Conservatives also need liberals
and radicals to keep them from making a mess of the world through unneeded
stagnation. This also holds true for philosophy." -- Robert Pirsig
Chaos is not the same thing as freedom, of course, and stability is not
equivalent to stagnation. I mean, this evolutionary process is not well served
by neglecting or over-inflating the role of either side. As Pirsig says so
clearly, "both are absolutely essential".
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