From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Tue Jul 06 2004 - 13:35:19 BST
Dear David M.,
You wrote 4 Jul 2004 19:51:13 +0100:
'If we wanted to start a political party that was compatible with the MOQ
what would it be like? I would like to suggest we call it the freedom and
quality party. What do we stand for?'
Anthony wrote 4 Jul 2004 14:37:52 +0000:
'Pirsig reminding me (and Dr Harris) not to use Quality in the service of
business a couple of times around 1999-2000 when Harris and I (together with
another post-graduate at Liverpool) seriously considered establishing some
sort of MOQ Institute. As Pirsig said, business (of whatever form) must be
subservient to the requirements of Quality.'
Would the MoQ serve politics or would politics serve Quality? How can
Quality be served if Quality is all there is? Would it serve DQ or sq or
both? What level of sq? What patterns within those levels?
Aren't all political parties serving some combination of DQ and sq?
THE coherent combination or THE sweet spot to be served doesn't exist.
Pretending it does (e.g. by naming it 'freedom and quality') implies making
DQ (emergent 5th level patterns of value) subservient to 4th level
symbolism.
I could tell you (and actually did tell you already) what I stand for and
that it is compatible with the MoQ as I understand it. Just have a look at
www.antenna.nl/wim.nusselder/schrijfsels/economics.htm . That's surely not
the only political position that's compatible with the MoQ (if it is, which
at least David B. questions).
'Freedom and quality' is a good populist summary, though, referring to DQ
and sq. Would you mind if I rewrote my 'economics of want and greed' into an
'economics of freedom and quality'? (You may have noted that 'economics' as
I use it there encompasses 'politics'.)
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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