Hi All,
Well so much for Lurkerville. While (not so) busy painting
our school walls during summer break, ideas surface like
latex off a roller- it might be the fumes...
Imagine if you would the following scenario:
A mouse has been dwelling in a metal cage for a day. Her
cage contains only food, water, and bedding. On the next
day a mouse's wheel is placed in the cage. The mouse
instantly connects in some way with this dynamic
appearance. So what does she do? She makes gradual
ratchet-like moves away from the security of her bedding
toward the wheel, inching forward a little, then back along
the same path back toward her bedding. Then again inching
still further forward along the same path toward the wheel.
After several minutes of this coupling of (dynamic
stretching) forward steps and (static latching) backward
steps, the mouse is now on the wheel, and already has
discovered (by chance) the wheel's function. The mouse now
has a means of exercise- of releasing her energy (in the
absence of an open field).
In this scenario, the dynamic (checking out the wheel) was
more moral than the static (ignoring the wheel), because
the wheel has improved the mouse's prior existence- has
built upon existing static patterns (and the mouse seems to
feel better for it). It was morally right for the mouse to
pursue the wheel- in this sense I think DQ is better than
sq. Given the choice between retreating into her bedding
and advancing toward the undefined Dynamic Quality (the
wheel), the advancement is better because by not responding
when opportunity knocks the mouse would have missed out on
the r/evolving wheel toward betterness.
But let's modify our wheel slightly with the addition of an
electrical field. The environment is set up so that the
closer the mouse gets to the wheel, an electric shock,
imperceptible at first, increases with intensity. The
mouse's ratchet-like advancements ensure that she doesn't
frazzle.
To say then that DQ is better than sq is IMO not quite
right. rather, it's better to advance toward potential
Dynamic Quality than to retreat into existing static
patterns, because without advancement there's no
advancement, no evolution.
Dynamic Quality is Reality.
Morality is its pursuit.
The morality of Quality Intellect is the pursuit of reality
by breaking out of subject-object thinking, out of the
mind. This for me is where Bo's SOLAQI comes into focus:
http://members.tripod.com/~Glove_r/SOLAQI.htm
By understanding that intellect is not reality, but a
subject-object logic, we are on the Quality track. This
understanding is what Pirsig refers to as "that highest
quality intellectual pattern".
The paint thickens,
Mark
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