Hello MOQers,
Whenever John goes in search of something more Dynamic, he
reflects intellect's malaise. After all, everything is
Quality- there IS no Dynamic in reality...
When he chooses to go on a vacation, IF his motive is to
'get away from it all', to 'escape from the workaday', what
is he expressing other than his dissatisfaction with
reality? (...which he's off in search of elsewhere). (How
does one become dissatisfied with reality? By
intellectualizing it to death?) Weekday mornings, he rides
"the same way to work... turn left at the same old barn...
past the same church and corn field, then out onto the
highway, always busy one-way traffic into the city." Later,
"same old faces at work, same stock greetings... "Good
morning, how are you today?""
But what's going on?
Every journey to work is a new visual experience- as the
corn grows, the church changes. When we master our static
(intellectual) patterns, we (might) conquer boredom. Only
_then_ is it MORAL to pursue Dynamic Quality- which is in
effect, not DQ but _more_ Quality.
So then summer vacation comes down to a choice between say
Mexico and Puerto Rico. He opts for the latter having
visited the former the previous summer. And, IF he has
mastered his tendency to cut reality up into static
intellectual chunks ('old barn, church, corn field,
highway, traffic, city, faces...') he'll find nothing
Dynamic about the latter- no Morality ("struggles of
conflicting patterns of values" Pirsig, Lila), no 'culture
shock'. Rather, novel experiences may expand his awareness,
seamlessly assimilating or accommodating themselves into
his ever-evolving understanding of things.
Regards,
Mark
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