clark (clark@netsites.net)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 04:14:30 +0100
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> From: clark <clark@netsites.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of <lilasqd@mail.hkg.com>
> Subject: LS End of the World?
> Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2098 4:05 PM
>
> LS and Diana,
> What if the world has happened to the Lila Squad? I have had only one
> message since Friday. Does everyone have this figured out except me?
> Diana, since I can't imagine no one having an opinion in four days I am
> beginning to wonder if I have been ousted from the mail server. Or maybe
it
> has developed that we are on the wrong track with the Quality idea and
this
> is the work of the Devil. Maybe he has confounded us to the tower of
quiet.
> I hope it does not develop that Diana is ill. I doubt that though since
> Bodvar Snuck a message through yesterday. Of course, Bodvar probably has
> special powers that transcend such things.
> Curious. Ken
>
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Lila Squad,
I thank all of you for your concern about my message situation. I had had
only a message from Bodvar and later one from Doug in four days and was
beginning to wonder if I had offended the younger folk (by younger I mean
50 and below) with my sweeping statements of sureness and also a local
colloquialism that snuck out unbeknownst.
Those kinds of colloquialisms are what we use among us denizens of the
Cookson Hills. Sometimes they have explanatory power that replaces a lot of
words. We only use them among friends and people that we feel comfortable
with. I forget that they don't translate too well. All of this is my warped
sense of humor coming through. I don't know nothin for sure.
I am reminded of an old blues singer that my wife and I used to go see in
Memphis. She claimed to be the daughter of Bessie Smith, an early blues
singer. She was in a wheelchair but she could really sing the blues.
Occasionally she would roll up to the microphone and yell out, "I'm seventy
two years old and I ain't never had enough of nuthin."
Bodvar, about the eugenics question. From an evolutionary standpoint the
answer is clear. Any organism that is unable to fully function and
contribute to the chain of life is dispensable.
From a human standpoint the answer is not so clear. From the standpoint
of economics we would have a more functional society if we kept the
deadwood cleared out, but I don't know of anyone currently in any of the
western nations who would advocate such a solution. I think a good avenue
to investigate would be the idea of Dr. Kevorkian whom some of you may have
heard about. He is a physician who is helping people to commit suicide who
are incurably ill or because of impaired function due to age who wish to
die. Not younger people who are just depressed or got jilted by their
significant others. He has been doing this for several years in defiance of
the law and so far he has not been deterred and he is not in jail. I think
he has the weight of opinion behind him and this will probably become an
accepted practice. It may even be going on more right now more than we
know. Physicians must face some difficult choices in this area. Just an
area to think in. Whatever you decide I wish you would put the upper age
limit above 73 years old.
This is an area that the squad may have threshed out before but I think I
have some of the same problems as Hugo has. I think Doug mentioned this a
short while ago.
As I understand the Quality idea now I see two distinct levels of
Quality.
I see a quality pertaining to the physical universe which operates the
same as our current ideas of the evolution of the physical universe up to,
but not including, humanity. If we equate Quality with an upward pressure
toward complexity and information content in the universe then this is what
I think of as value and morality in the original Pirsig sense.
When we get to the level of emotion I see Quality as being different for
each individual with value and morality being different for each
individual. I see a steady pressure for an increase in value and morality
because of the rising level of awareness and understanding in humanity,
that is, a rising level of Dynamic Quality. This, of course, being
converted to static quality and thus to the appropriate levels of value.
And on and on circularly. I am still trying to decide if there is another
avenue of input to SPOV besides the action of Dynamic Quality on awareness.
If there is, then this input would be subjected to the action of Dynamic
Quality in the next instant. Wouldn't make a lot of difference as far as I
can see. All would still be Dynamic Quality in origin as far as our SPOVs
are concerned. Ken
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