From: Phaedrus Wolff (PhaedrusWolff@carolina.rr.com)
Date: Tue Dec 28 2004 - 20:00:02 GMT
Sam) -- That's exactly why I think ZMM is such a wonderful book
Hi Sam,
I do agree. ZMM is a "wonderful book." Each time I pick it up to read for
reasons of clarity, such as in this case where I want to show where "Lila"
needed to be written, I get lost in it; it sends rushes of Quality through
my veins.
Maybe this snippet might help to show how important "Lila" is to the
understanding of Quality;
<Snip>
There has been a haze, a backup problem in this Chautauqua so far; I talked
about caring the first day and then realized I couldn't say anything
meaningful about caring until its inverse side, Quality, is understood. I
think it's important now to tie care to Quality by pointing out that care
and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person
who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person
who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some
characteristics of Quality.
Thus, if the problem of technological hopelessness is caused by absence of
care, both by technologists and antitechnologists; and if care and Quality
are external and internal aspects of the same thing, then it follows
logically that what really causes technological hopelessness is absence of
the perception of Quality in technology by both technologists and
antitechnologists. Phædrus' mad pursuit of the rational, analytic and
therefore technological meaning of the word "Quality" was really a pursuit
of the answer to the whole problem of technological hopelessness. So it
seems to me, anyway.
So I backed up and shifted to the classic-romantic split that I think
underlies the whole humanist-technological problem. But that too required a
backup into the meaning of Quality.
But to understand the meaning of Quality in classic terms required a backup
into metaphysics and its relationship to everyday life. To do that required
still another backup into the huge area that relates both metaphysics and
everyday life...namely, formal reason. So I proceeded with formal reason up
into metaphysics and then into Quality and then from Quality back down into
metaphysics and science.
Now we go still further down from science into technology, and I do believe
that at last we are where I wanted to be in the first place.
But now we have with us some concepts that greatly alter the whole
understanding of things. Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific
reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into
a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more
practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all
along...the repair of an old motorcycle.
</Snip>
This may not even be the best, but I couldn't include all the places in ZMM
where the MOQ was needed for clarification.
It is this whole mystical, scientific, artistic reality that needs to be
united into a whole. What most of society sees as the higher intellectual is
not the motorcycle mechanic. This Quality can not be seen only through the
artistic caring that goes into doing a high Quality job, or the sweet spot
of an athelete, it needs to be threaded into our total reality --
everything -- everywhere.
The intellect is the highest form of evolution, and the lonliness of a
technological world needs an intellectual solution, an intellect that is
just as much real in the motorcycle mechanic as it is the scientist; an
intellect that includes value -- Quality.
Yes, ZMM is a wonderful book. I never get lost in "Lila" the way I do ZMM,
and "Lila" is not as moving as ZMM, but "Lila's" message is just as dynamic;
just as important to our understanding of the world around us, and our
harmony with the world around us.
Don't you think?
Chin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Norton" < >
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Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: MD The MOQ and Mysticism 101
> Hi Chin,
> That's exactly why I think ZMM is such a wonderful book. Glad you got your
moment of Quality and got
> the establishment off your son's back.
> Sam
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