Jonathan:
**God vs. Anhanga** seems to me like a pretty reasonable metaphysical
definition of good vs. evil.
Glove:
Kind of reminds me of the Zuni brujo and his battle with the priests. Pirsig
was using this analogy to illustrate Dynamic Quality it is true, but I think
if we look at this, it's more of a battle between the social and intellect
levels. The intellect level is more Dynamic because it is more "chaotic".
The social level wants to organize, create. But once the social level has
created something, it must be destroyed for something new to grow in its
place. If this isn't recognized, the destructive intellect level may be
perceived as something evil. Isn't this very notion what brought on the Dark
Ages? It sounds suspiciously like a stasis in the Metaphysics of Quality to
me.
Certainly our ancestors must have had to "outgrow" this phase, but look how
many hundreds of years the intellect was persecuted and condemned. Are we
really that far removed from those tribes in Brazil even now?
This leads into a rant about the new Lila Squad I am afraid. I have kind of
been quiet about all the goings on and I really like the new webpage
layout...it's very well done I think. But as far as the moderated list, I
will not be joining now or any time in the future. This month has produced
some of the best posts I have read since joining the LS back in, what, early
June of '98 I think. And we had no PROGRAM topic at all in January '99.
With a moderated list, how many of those posts would have made it thru? I
ask you. And it would all depend on who is doing the moderating. I for one
would rather have that choice myself. Take a look at the diversity and
different ideas being bantered around. Sure, there are quite a few posts to
wade thru, but there are some real gems in there. And with the archive
mailing list, I don't even have to save anything. All I have to do is go to
the archives.
I remember Hugo Alroe suggested a few months ago that there be no PROGRAM
topic at all, and I would like to second the motion. At least for the
unmoderated list anyway. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
Best wishes
glove
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