The answer is suggested in the book: 'Hitchickers guide to the galaxy'. See the commentary that ends in the words: "... How shall we eat? Why do we eat? and where shall we have lunch?"
The answer to the question of what evolves from intellect, the next form inhabited by Quality is art itself. Because biology reaches its limited form, it takes a radical step, finding "Betterness" in repeating the process the protozoa 'discovered' in subsuming itself to membership in a metazoan society. Society or community undertakes activities whose driver is "betterness" too. Certain aspects of biological quality are discovered to be antithetical to social quality. Order seems to produce a stronger society. Hence disorder must be mitigated by law. If it's easy to see how these are related. It's harder to see the same process applied to 'Intellect'. My generation was not seeking to subvert 'Intellect' but to illuminate it's excesses - that which threatened 'disorder' or 'Decay'. As intellect informs society so Art must inform intellect to midigate it's destructive formations. Atomic bombs are unhealthy for living things and living things are valuable. If Quality preceeds experience, there can be no experience of Quality and if Quality is the arbiter of experience, there is no sensible experience without it. ask why we don't see the frame in the picture; Yet no picture is percievable without it. Def. Art: Persuing perceptions of the sublime. On May 2, 2014 12:51 PM, "Ian Glendinning" <[email protected]> wrote: > You've had > Post-structuralism. > You've had > Post-Modernism > Thus side of the pond, we've even recently had > Post-Christian > What about > Post-Intellectualism? > > "I can't put quality into an intellectual framework for you any more > than the Zen Buddhists can put the Dharma that they speak of into an > absolute framework: Whatever framework you choose is always less than > the Dharma itself, and whatever definition you give quality is less > than quality itself." (Robert Pirsig, 1975) > > Ian > 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 > 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
