Hiya Platt
On 26 Mar 2002 at 10:33, Platt Holden wrote:
> 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."
Love compassion and caring are static patterns of value as is freedom. They are
aspects of DQ but not DQ itself (i.e. synonymous = identical). This must be because
freedom is defineable (static pattern of value) and DQ is not.
Freedom is an essential component of DQ and without freedom it is not possible to
move towards Dynamic Quality:
"To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of quality it is without
choice. But to the extent that one follows Dynamic Quality, which is undefinable, one's
behavior is free."
"It seems as though any static mechanism that is open to Dynamic Quality must also be
open to degeneracy-to falling back to lower forms of quality.
This creates the problem of getting maximum freedom for the emergence of Dynamic
Quality while prohibiting degeneracy from destroying the evolutionary gains of the past.
Americans like to talk about all their freedom but they think it's disconnected from
something Europeans often see in America: the degeneracy that goes with the
Dynamic."
Horse
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