Hi Mary, Ken and LS:
MARY wrote:
> Evil is change. Every type of evil that I can think of is a
> challenge to the status quo. It is an attack on something that
> already "is". Every advance toward Dynamic Quality is also a change.
> QED evil is as much a part of Dynamic Quality as good. If there
> were no evil, then how would the levels have developed? For example,
> what's good for the biological level would be considered evil for the
> inorganic level since the biological level is trapping the free
> interactions of inorganic particles (or waves!) in a static
> arrangement. If carried to it's logical conclusion then, evil is the
> driving force for change in the universe. Dynamic Quality is always
> evil from a static perspective. Evil thoughts anyone?
My quick reaction is that you're right. But doesn't this mean that Ken
would need to change his view that there was no evil in the world into we
humans came along? Your suggestion, which I think accurately reflects
Pirsig, places the beginning of evil at the moment of the Big Bang.
Oh, no. Now I'm the evil one, putting a wedge between father and
daughter. Well, you asked for evil thoughts :-)
Platt
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