Andrew Gaedtke (agaedtke@newnorth.net)
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 23:02:53 +0100
> Pirsig describes static quality as an agent that "works behind" the dynamic
> forces and tries to preserve what they create. Using this idea on the levels
> of quality seems to imply that 100 million years ago (during the reign of the
> dinosaurs, long before the arrival of man (or even our ancestors, the great
> apes)) there the levels of social and intellectual quality did not yet exist.
> I'm less certain on whether it means that entirely different levels of quality
> might have arisen in their place had the dinosaurs not died out.
Right. These levels aren't only subjective to human nature (human
intelligence, human social behavior,...) but all of nature in general.
Intellectual Quality is a high level that resides throughout nature. It
might appear to be human-centric but this is only because we embody the
highest known intelligence...highest level of Quality...in nature.
Pirsig is really saying something positive about mankind!
As far as higher levels of Quality, I think such ideas are pure
speculation (as if the rest of this isn't, right?). What do we know of
that is of higher Quality than thought? What could morally usurp an
idea? DYNAMIC QUALITY
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