[Arlo previously] Rather, we get people who have latched onto this rather literally and are using it to justify two 'competing' views rather than understanding their symbiotic and synthetic co-occurence as, I think, both Pirsig and Northrop would've hoped.
[djh] Do you honestly think Marsha prefers two 'competing' views? I don't think so. [Arlo] I was talking about YOU, David. I've never once seen Marsha say she was in 'context one', but I see YOU say it all the time. You've latched onto Paul's idea, revised it into something like a "dynamic/East context" and a "static/West context" (which is wrong), and you use it to compartmentalize people incorrectly. [Ron comments on an aside] Incidentally, and this has little to do with what Arlo was saying only that the East was considered dynamic and the West static, I was watching a program, James Burke's the day the universe changed and I felt he made a rather interesting explanation as to why the west seems to change faster than the east and he attributed it to how cultural values played a huge role. It made me reflect on what we mean by static and dynamic and how they best function as a description in relation to cultural patterns, the west may be a more dynamic culture as it accepts change faster but the east cultures the personal experience with dynamic quality and it does this with static ritual in the aim of betterness. ..just mumbeling aloud .. 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
