The politics is possibly crucial:

http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/traumas-of-the-erasure-of-the-real/#more-7479

David M

david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>David Morey said to DMB:
>...why is content so much better a word than pattern, what rules it out? Is 
>there a better word for X? I have tried the split between DQ and SQ as 
>pre-conceptual patterns and conceptual patterns,  you don't like that,  what 
>about dynamic patterns versus static patterns? 
>
>
>dmb says:
>As I have already said over and over, you are misusing Pirsig's key terms, 
>namely Dynamic Quality and static "patterns" of quality. Those are Pirsig's 
>terms. We are talking their meaning in a Pirisg discussion group - and the 
>title of this thread is "Static Patterns Rock". Dude, what the hell is wrong 
>with your brain? You are being obnoxiously stupid about this point! 
>
>Why, of all the words in the English language, would you want to described 
>Pirsig's DQ in terms of "patterns"? That is the worst possible choice. It 
>could not be worse. As I keep saying over and over and over again, "Patterns" 
>is exactly what DQ is not. 
>
>Seriously, are you daft? Are you playing some sick game? You're talking like 
>you're a full-blown idiot and you then you act surprised by my objections to 
>this contradictory drivel! You refuse to acknowledge these totally freaking 
>obvious contradictions.
>
>There is static and dynamic. Just two things. But you have to describe the 
>dynamic in terms of the static. That's just dumb, man. How can you fail to see 
>that? How could anyone fail to see that?
>
>
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