Bodvar and all Moqers,
You wrote :
>This view I contest most vehemently. "Only a framework...just a
>theory...etc. No, a metaphysics in the grandiose sense as I have come to
>understand the SOM/MOQ difference IS the food itself. This is what its
>chief axiom (Quality=Reality) says - will we never grasp that single point?
>know it can be said that "reality" is divided into DQ/SQ, but I can't for
>the life of me understand what is outside Dynamic Value (if we accept the
>MOQ that is)
>Reality is Quality in the MOQ and no subset.
We seem to be going around in circles. How any Metaphysics
can be food (experience) itself, beats me. Any Metaphysics,
howsoever good it may be is only a MODEL of reality, not
reality itself. This reminds me of the ZAMM situation where
Pirsig tells the Chairman " But it is only an analogy "
and subsequently says on the same page -
>Everything is only an analogy. But the dialecticians dont know that !
This one line sums up the whole of ZAMM. Apperently
intellectuals still dont know that.
>Quality is the primary empirical Reality - Pirsigs words
NOT ALL OF Reality. If you say Quality and Reality are the
same then that is eqvivalent to saying that all is Good and
all is Right, in which case MoQ itself is redundant !
All events that take place in the Universe are NOT Quality
events.Rather only a small fraction of them are Quality events
Quality is the WORTHWHILE Reality, the essence ,the rest is
mundane Reality , but nervertheless Reality. Even within the
MoQ , how you want to overlook this fact , and of what use this
is for you, again beats me. Perhaps it fits in well with
your SOLAQI that you are trying to sell. If you are getting
results according to your expectations who am I to say no?
I am not trying to sell anything.
It has been my endevour here to attempt to integrate MoQ
with other Metaphysics , simply because I think that MoQ
was designed for the purpose of cross-cultural synthesis.
The reason for that I presume is that within a singular
cultural system , the missing pieces or the faultlines of
that cultural construct CANNOT be seen from within. Only
from outside, in a comparison of two or more cultural
constructs can these faultlines or missing values be identified.
But to take leave of the citadel of one's own cultural
construct requires a supreme effort or will. It is a vicious
circle - a catch 22 - that has to be broken from the inside
by the individual- a painful process with no immediate rewards.
That is the supreme challenge of life - to break away from
this prison of the cultural construct.
Anthropology has failed to produce any results simply
because it tried to comprehend other cultures from within
the walls of its own cultural construct , the scientists and
the intellectuals did not allow for it otherwise.
To commit the same mistake here will kill the potential of MoQ.
Dillon.
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