To: Sam
From: Rog
SAM:
So in MoQ terms a
constitutional democracy allows for static latching whilst still leaving
room for dynamic breakthroughs. In a dictatorship there is room for
spectacular dynamic breakthroughs (revolution) but such events have a 'throw
the baby out with the bathwater' tendency - seen most clearly in the French
Revolution, but present elsewhere...
So to get back to the question "What do the patterns of higher quality have
that those of destruction, decay and disorder don't?" It seems to me that we
need some way of phrasing the desirability of static latchings...
Quite how we achieve that I don't know - "to preserve the best of the old
while keeping room for the new" captures most of it, but that's a bit
anodyne... I'm not convinced, btw, that quality
is only visible a hundred years down the line. The fall of the Berlin wall
was pretty unambiguous IMHO.
ROG:
I will include your thoughts in the final summary. I too agree that the 100
year test is a worst case scenario. Harmonious patterns across the greatest
span and depth that can preserve the best of the old and keep searching for
the new are the signs of very high quality patterns. Further, I suggest that
we can learn how to establish an environment and personal perspective that is
prone (though by no means guaranteed) to progress toward higher quality.
Thanks for the commentary and comments!
Rog
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