LS The Answer

From: Diana McPartlin (diana@hongkong.com)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 16:35:29 BST


David and the rest of you,

An exceptional 6-year-old sounds like a 12-year-old. His peers might reject
him but adults will understand and admire him. But an exceptional
25-year-old doesn't sound like a 50-year-old. He sounds like someone nobody
has ever heard before. (a vaguely remembered Pirsig quote)

Pirsig's theory is, in essence, that the physical nature of the universe is
its moral nature. It's an idea that is completely alien to our
twentieth-century, scientific, objective culture. This explains the
difficulty some have - even within this forum - in accepting it.
Nevertheless this is what his theory is about. It is an Inquiry into Morals,
not an inquiry into patterns, nor an inquiry into definitions, although
these things may have some subordinate relevance to the theory. The
dynamic-static split, being the first division in this hierarchy, is
therefore primarily a division in and of morality

> At the risk of boring the rest of you, I have to
>thank Diana for the last few posts. I can't even say why they were good.
>Reading them was mostly an aesthetic experience. I believe that was the
>intention; a kind of prose poem.

I was trying to answer the question as best I could. I apologise if my prose
was muddy. That is due to my inadequacy for the task but was not my
intention at all. The MOQ is unconventional but it's not irrational and
neither are my posts about it.

Quality is value.

Did the chocolate taste good
Was the joke funny
Am I good

But where to next? I'm getting bored simply repeating what Pirsig said.
Need to be careful we don't waste all our energy on the
easy stuff, or there'll none left to take the MOQ to the next level.

Diana

MOQ Online - http://www.moq.org



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