Bodvar Skutvik (skutvik@online.no)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 16:26:38 +0100
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 10:57:09 +0000
LUVIK@aol.com wrote:
> My first time on the Lila Squad.
> Yesterday I was driving a friend to a meeting. In explaining to the
> friend the difference between static and dynamic in the social arena, I
> said that the static social quality was to drive down the road and not
> in the ditch. But if a truck turns into your side of the road, you'd
> better allow for a dynamic solution to this new situation or you will be
> dead. In the instant you will probably head for the ditch. You have
> allowed a dynamic social pattern of quality to take the place of a
> static social pattern of quality.
> I could go on with examples, but I want to see if anyone else is looking
> at the MOQ this way.
Luke and Squad.
First a warm welcome to Luke (he is the only LSer I have met in
person (last summer)). Your example of a static-dynamic interaction
was a break from the "philosophological" wanderings we have been on
for a month now with the SOM definitions.
The driving of a car has been used by many to demonstrate how
"static" a menial task can become, and yet how alert I am while
wandering off in deep thoughts. Once something happens the reaction
is instant and proper. In Tor Nörretrander's book the first I is
called "ME", other speak about "deeper levels"; "subliminal self",
but what would the MOQ explanation be?
Now, this wasn't Luke's point, he calls (regular) driving "static
social", and social it is to the extent we follow rules and
regulations, but what about the split second decision to go
off the road rather than collide with the other car? For
an experienced driver it is 'in the blood' so I would call it
biological; a gut reaction bypassing intellect self to save life
and situation (however, it is possible to contemplate a situation
where social value overrides biology and demands sacrifice of own
life. After all it is a higher level).
If we are to postulate dynamic interaction at each unexpected
situation we have a similar problem as the SOM where decisions are
supposed to take place in the mind while executed by the body. Every
step we take walking along a rough path is "unexpected" and yet
biological value (body) knows how to keep balance while intellectual
I can go on thinking about what to write to the LS :-). This is at
least my "gut" reaction to Luke's entry.
Bodvar (alias Bo)
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