Platt Holden (pholden@worldnet.att.net)
Sun, 8 Feb 1998 06:50:00 +0100
Hi Diana,
Diana wrote:
>
> Platt, Doug,
>
> Some advice:
>
> If it ain't simple, it ain't the MoQ
Good advice But as we discovered in thrashing out the Principles, trying
to attain simplicity often requires a great deal of preliminary complexity.
As I see it, what Doug and I (and many others on the Squad) are doing is
simple: using the idea of Quality to unite science and the arts -- just as
Pirsig did in the SODV.
A simple justification for this effort was penned by Jacob Bronowski:
"Every thoughtful person who hopes for the creation of a contemporary
culture knows that this hinges on one central problem: to find a coherent
relationship between science and the humanities."
In the Principles under Value we state, "A value based metaphysics explains
reality better than one that divides reality into an inner subjective realm
and outer objective realm because it integrates subjects and objects, mind
and body, science and art and many other anomalies."
The challenge is how to convince those on either side of the anomalies with
heavy investments in their split worldview that 1) integration is
necessary, and 2) the MoQ is key.
To accomplish that, we first have to fully convince ourselves. The path to
that goal, as we have seen, is often tortured and complex because each of
us pursues it from a different background of experience and values. But
that should not discourage us from the pursuit.
Platt
Catch 39: No matter how you shuffle the cards, it's still the same deck.
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