Ok levellers, let's continue.
I guess that some of you might question the necessity to rule out DQ when we try
to define the levels. I mean, DQ is a big part of reality and if a theory is
developed without DQ, that theory wouldn't explain reality.
But the focus of this month is to define the static levels, and since the static
levels is everything that isn't DQ, we don't care about DQ this month.
Ok then, how do we rule out DQ? For starters, don't bother looking at anything
that's alive. Now half of the crowd says:
- But then we're confined to the first level!
No we're not. There are lots of perfectly obvious examples of higher level patterns
that are completely dead. One is right in front of you right now. The words you're
reading are a snapshot of my intellectual patterns. They were dynamic in my head but
once I transferred them to the mail, they became static. They're still intellectual
patterns though. They are ideas.
An obvious example of a social quite dead pattern is a diamond. In certain societies,
such as the victorian and to a great extent today's western society, a diamond is
valued very high. In such societies, diamonds are pure social value.
Going downwards, an abvious example of a dead biological pattern is a bar of
chocolate. Yummy! Biologically good.
Someone might argue that the subject side of the quality event, "tasting a bar of
chocolate", must be alive. But as we know, there is no such thing as "the subject
side" of a quality event. The subject side is only the subject side from the
subjects' point of view, it's the object side from the other side's point of view.
Who is for example the subject when two lovers kiss?
Anyway, stop thinking about living things to get a clearer picture of what's
going on around you. Then start to arrange what you see into the four levels and
try to define what each level is about. When that's done, you can start to apply
it on living things to to see if the theory breaks... or holds.
The definitions I got when I did this a few years ago is listed in my "Classisist..."
essay in the forum. I haven't really changed my mind since then so it would just be
a waste of time to repeat them here.
Magnus
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