Dear Diana and all Foci.
You said:
> I think it's only natural to get tired of something when you spend so
> much time on it. But it's also true that the dialog never really seems
> to achieve much, and it can be very time consuming. I've sent on
> average one post per month for more than a year now. I feel the need
> to have my 2c on everything for the sake of getting it off my chest as
> much as anything else. I might have sounded a bit negative about the
> MOQ, or at least not as enthusiastic as I should be, in my last post,
> and I'm afraid Bo may be cross with me for this so I'd better make it
> clear that I still think Pirsig's basic ideas - like his rejection of
> the SOM and reality equals morality - are profound, but I feel the
No crossness from this side, just a little puzzlement after you first
message this month over how it is possible to use parts of it
without accepting it all. I mean, you spoke of it as the best "latch",
but (used that way) the term only applies to the MOQ which - as I
see it - is either nonsense or revolution, but then I am a little
zealous.
> full potential of these ideas hasn't been explored. When I see people
> wondering what morality has to do with it all anyway, or asking
> whether quality is subjective or objective (!!), it makes me wonder if
> we'll ever make any progress at all.
You are just right on this last point. At times it is as if nothing has
been achieved and not the least bit of SOM's immense hold on us
is understood - just new victims of the chat epidemic. But then I
recall how it was - all those years wondering if just this silly
person cared about Pirsig's work with no way of finding out. Then
LILA and some more years before the Internet made it to me, then
the "Lila Squad/MD/MF/moq.org homepage" still going strong. At
least there are places to speak and read about the Quality
Metaphysics.
Big hug from
Bo
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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