From: PhaedrusWolf@aol.com
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 22:08:21 GMT
In a message dated 12/8/04 1:53:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
hampday@earthlink.net writes:
Obviously I've touched on a sensitive issue by rejecting the "art" of
motorcycle mechanics. I should have realized this was sacred territory for
followers of ZMM. My apologies to all current and would-be owners of
Harleys, etc.
The point I was trying to make is simply that we all seem to be splicing
definitions and predicates to reach idealistic conclusions, as if solving
the riddle of the universe was a matter patching accepted ideas into a giant
crossword puzzle.
I don't deny that formulating a philosophical hypothesis or a moralistic
novel is a form of art, just as is composing music or painting on canvas --
or maybe even mechanical engineering. But the form in which we choose to
create is methodological; what is significant is the substance. And,
frankly, I don't see much substance coming out of our debates here.
Hi Ham,
Everything is art; if it is done with the highest Quality it is a thing of
beauty. Motorcycle maintenance is an analogy showing how the most mundane task
can be done with Quality, and how a concentration on Quality can make a
difference in the world. Methodological work is of the lowest Quality, and I have
found this in mechanical engineering I have witnessed to date. When you
persist in advancing through methodology to a given goal, there may be substance
in your creation, but that is all it is -- a form, a cold piece of substance
that comes from some prior decided design; the idea that Quality has no
value.
The skilled individual brings happiness to their life and others by the
difference between a Quality decision and performing a task. Performing a task is
what you are describing. It is mundane, systematic, effortless creation; you
are simply going through life on cruise control, afraid to accelerate or
take a curve fast as the excitement is feared to lead to only negative
consequences. There is not adrenaline, only the biological heartbeat of existence in a
so-so effort made in a so-so life to come to a so-so end. You have existed,
but your existence meant nothing.
Chin
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