Hi Elliot:
> >Please explain further what you mean by relationship to material >quality
> >providing an index for social quality. Money is >a "relationship" medium
> >is it not?
>
> If money is the only other variable, then yes, money would be in a direct
> relationship with Quality. But, because money is not equal to happiness (i
> can be happy with material wealth that is not money) or productivity (i can
> produce just as much without getting paid in dollar ammounts) directly,
> universally, fundementally, it is merely a guage.
>
> Without money there can still be quality. the example is not in societies,
> its in people, who make up societies. thus, money, right now tends to guage
> productive capability and may even corispond with happiness fairly well,
> but the two are not the same, there are alternatives.
>
> Dont mistake the thermometer for heat energy.
Good point. It's easy to confuse means with meanings, the pump for the
water. But money is a good gauge of a society's quality as it
represents voluntary exchanges of goods and services (values)
compared to alternatives means such as authoritarian edicts.
But, getting back to the MOQ, Pirsig suggests that built into our
primary awareness is an automatic index or gauge of Quality. A child's
first cry and expression of "No" indicates the Quality meter is up an
running, and it seems to last a lifetime. As Pirsig points out, the meter
varies in its movements from person to person, depending on one's
education and life experiences. Of course, the scientific worldview
dismisses the existence of such a value meter because it doesn't
register on an physical instrument and therefore, like a ghost, doesn't
exist. Science must be "objective." Values, morals not allowed. Which
makes it a disastrous intellectual pattern to dominate society. Not that
Britney Spears and her fans would be any better. (-:
Platt
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