Hi Horse:
> On 24 Mar 2002 at 19:21, Platt Holden wrote:
>
> > Definitely not the MOQ way where freedom reigns as the highest good.
>
> Pirsig might disagree with you here:
>
> "That's quality! Particularly the sexual functions. From the cells' point
> of view sex is pure DYNAMIC QUALITY, [my capitals] the highest Good of
> all."
>
> "When they call it freedom, that's not right. "Freedom" doesn't mean
> anything. Freedom's just an escape from something negative. The real reason
> it's so hallowed is that when people talk about it they mean Dynamic
> Quality."
>
> Freedom is not synonymous with Dynamic Quality. and freedom is contextual
> in general the way that Pirsig uses it.
Here are a couple of quotes that convince me that DQ is synonymous
with freedom: (Caps added)
"It (DQ)contains no pattern of fixed rewards and punishments. ITS
ONLY PERCEIVED GOOD IS FREEDOM and its only perceived evil is
static quality itself-any pattern of one-sided fixed values that tries to
contain and kill the ongoing FREE FORCE OF LIFE." (9)
"Although Dynamic Quality, THE QUALITY OF FREEDOM, creates this
world in which we live, these patterns of static quality, the quality of
order, preserve our world." (9)
"This last, the Dynamic-static code, says what's good in life isn't
defined by society or intellect or biology. What's GOOD IS FREEDOM
FROM DOMINATION BY ANY STATIC PATTERN, but that freedom
doesn't have to be obtained by destruction of the patterns themselves."
(24)
In other words, it's not love, compassion, or caring that's the highest
value. It's DQ, the "quality of freedom."
Platt
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