MOF's
Just some background stuff. The "F" word as it appears in my November 1991 issue of the
Bantam
hardback (emphasis is mine). Not sure it's all of them but probably most.
****************************************************************** "There'd been times when an
urge surface to take the slips...and file them into the door of the coal stove... Then it would
all be gone and he would be really FREE again. Except that he wouldn't be FREE. It would
still
be in his mind to do. p 24
Ten Bear speech:
"I was born on the prairie, where the wind blew FREE, and there was nothing to break the light
of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and where everything drew a FREE breath."
p 41
"FREEDOM"
"That was the topic that would drive home this whole understanding of Indians. Of all the topics
on Indians covered FREEDOM was more important. ******************************************** "And
as Phaedrus' studies got deeper and deeper he saw that it was to this conflict between European
and Indian values, between FREEDOM and order, that his study should be directed." p 48
********************************************* "It was the moral force that had motivated the
brujo in Zuni. It contains not pattern of fixed rewards and punihments. Its only percieved good
is FREEDOM and its only fixed evil is static quality itself-any pattern of one-sided fixed
values that tries to contain and kill the ongoing FREE force of life." P115
Although Dynamic quality, the Quality of FREEDOM, creates this world in which we live, these
patterns of static quality, the quality of order, preserve out world. Neither static or Dynamic
Quality can survive without the other." Lila-pp 121
It was a vehicle they could steer to all sorts of FREEDOM by selecting first one bonding
preference and then another in an almost unlimited variety of ways." p146
But in a value centered explaination of evolution they are close to dynamic process itself,
pulling the pattern of life forward to greater levels of versatility and FREEDOM." p147
A third puzzle illuminated by the Metaphysics of Quality is the ancient "FREE will vs
determinism conntroversy." Determinism is the philosophic doctrine that man , like all other
objects in the universe, follows fixed scientific laws, and does so without exception. FREE will
is the philosophic doctrine that make choices independent of the atoms of his body." P 155
"If the belief in FREE will is abandoned, morality must seemingly also be abandoned under a
subject -object metaphysics." P155
"But to the extent that one follow Dynamic Quality which is undefinable, one's behavior is
FREE." p156
"Because a value center Metaphysics of Quality is not tied to substance it is FREE to consider
moral issues at higher evolutionary levels than germs and fruits and vegetables." P160
"It must have been on his way to India. Breaking out of this whole system. Running to get FREE."
p215
"When they call it FREEDOM, that's not right. "FREEDOM"doesn't mean anything. FREEDOM'S just an
escape from something negative. The real reason it's so hallowed is that when people talk about
it they mean Dynamic Quality." p 220
"On the other hand the conservatives who keep trumpeting about virtues of FREE enterprise are
normally just supporting their own self - interest." P 221
"A FREE market is a Dynamic institution." p221
"The Metaphysics of Qualty says the FREE market makes everbody richer by preventing static
economic patterns from setting in stagnating economic growth" P 221
"What makes the FREE enterprise system superior is that the socialists, reasoning intelligently
and objectively, have inadvertantly closed the door to Dynamic Quality." p221
" People, like everything else, works better in parallel then they do in series, and that is
what happens in this FREE enterprise city." P221
"This creates the problem of getting the maximum FREEDOM for the emergence of Dynamic Quality
while prohibiting the degeneracy from destroying the evolutionary gains of the past. Americans
like to talk about all their FREEDOM but they think it's disconnected from somthing the
Europeans often see in America: the degeneracy that goes with the Dynamic." P223
"FREEDOMS that save the saviors also save the degenerates..." pg. 224
" But suppose it flew up for the balcony so high it got FREE of the light of the city and saw
the moon and began to fly straight. Would that make releasing it moral?" P264
" It was presented as a fight for academic FREEDOM, but battles of that sort had been going on
for centuries without the kind of attention he scopes trial got." p273
"Of all the "vices" none was more controversian that premarital and extramarital sex. There was
no depravity the Victorians condemned more vehemently and no FREEDOM the new intellecturals have
defended more ardently." P279
" If you open the door to premarital sex you simply allow FREEDOM that does nobody any harm." P
279
"The moral values that were replacing the old European Victorian ones were the moral values of
American Indians: kindness to children, maximum FREEDOM, openess of speech, love of simplicity,
affinity for nature." P 280
"What's good is FREEDOM from domination by any static pattern, but that FREEDOM doesn't have to
be obtained by the destruction of the patterns themselves." P301
"This was not any new paradise the intellecturals of the twentieth century were trying to
achieve by FREEDOM from Victorian restraints. This was something else that had blown up in their
faces." P301
" By the end of the sixties the intellectualism of the twenties found itself in an impossible
trap. If it continued to advocate more FREEDOM all it would get is more Hippies, who were really
just carrying its anti-Victorianism to an extreme." P302
"The great intellectual revolution of the first half of the twentieth century ... was killed,
hoist on its own petard of FREEDOM from social restraint." pg. 303
"The idea that, " man is born FREE but is everywhere in chains" was never true."
"There are no chains more vicious that the chains of bilogical necessity into which every child
is born. Society exists primarily to FREE people from these biological chains." 307
" Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social
nightmare because the intellectural level of evolution, in its struggle to become FREE of the
social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under
control." 308
"We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual FREEDOM for its own purposes it
is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is
absolutely morally good." P 309
"He remembered a metaphor that had occured to him of a bug that had been crawiling aound in some
smelly sock all his life and now someone or something had turned the sock inside out. The
terrain he covered, the details of his life,were all the same, but now somehow everything seem
open and FREE and all the horrible confining smell of everything was gone." P320
" Another metaphor that had occured to him was that he'd been on a tightrope all his life. Now
he'd fallen off and found that instead of crashing he was flying, a strange new talent he never
knew he had...... He was FREE of a static pattern of life he thought was unchangeable." P320
"During Phaedrus' time of insanity when he wandered FREEly outside the limits of cultural
reality,.." P339
"But they're not being contrary in a way that is just decadent. They're way to energetic and
aggressive to be decadent. They're fight for some kind of Dynamic FREEDOM from the static
patterns. But the Dynamic FREEDOM they're fighting for is a kand of morality too." P359
" Both lunatics and mystics have FREED themselves from the conventional static intellectual
patterns of the culture." P373
" The explanation for this contridiction is the belief that you do not FREE yourself from static
patterns by fighting them with other static patterns.... You FREE yourself from static patterns
by putting them to sleep." P385
"Lila's problem wasn't that she was suffering from a lack of Dynamic FREEDOM. It's hard to see
how she could possibly have any more FREEDOM. What she need now were some stable patterns to
encase that FREEDOM." P386
" On the other hand, Phaedrus supposed, when you're the recieving end of some karma dump like
that is sets you FREE." P399
" Because everybody gets what he wants: the voice said.
"Lila get her precious Richard Rigel, Rigel gets his precious self-righteousness, you get your
precious Dynamic FREEDOMS, and I get to go swimming." p 403
He stood on a mound of sand besides some juniper bushes and said, " Ahhhh! He threw out his
arms. FREE ! No idols, no Lila, no Rigel, no New York, no more America even. just FREE ! P406
3WD
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