Hi Maggie
an Italian comic actor, Beppe Grillo, once said (more or less):
“Every day a truck full of typical delicious Danish biscuits starts
from Copenhagen to Milan. Once in Milan, they unload the biscuits, and
load the truck with “Panettoni” [typical cakes of Milan] to be
delivered to Denmark. Indeed, it’s good for Danes to eat Italian cakes
and for Italians to eat Danish cakes….. but why don’t they simply swap
the recipes???”
Ciao,
Marco
-----Messaggio Originale-----
Da: Maggie Hettinger
A: moq_discuss@moq.org
Data invio: mercoledì 28 agosto 2002 22.08
Oggetto: MD packaging
Hi. I had an interesting value-shift insight this morning. I don't
think I've seen it discussed.
I'm wondering whether one of the highest-valued processes of our
universe isn't packaging. Packaging for transportation.
Packaging often (usually? always?) involves a situation in which a
higher-level process takes substance from a lower-level process and
redirects it.
Packaging can also be seen as a method by which an entity trapped by
static patterns is able to escape those patterns.
So, somehow, it should have bearing on the MOQ concept. I don't
remember
Pirsig touching on this, though.
I've always wondered why we (and our society) act out values that are
clearly opposite to our stated and proclaimed values, one of the
biggest
anomalies being our willingness to put ourselves and children on a
dangerous interstate highway on a regular basis, when any other
activity
even a thousandth as dangerous would be banned by law and strictly
enforced. But it's part of a dynamic, growing, packaging system, and
that value (or something like it) overrides our other social
&intellectual values.
So anyway, from this point of view many aspects of life that I
personally tend to consider low-value may be highly valued by the
greater awareness of the universe. These things come to mind:
Commercialism & capitalism
Redundant transportation and shipping of goods
Air-conditioned houses, shopping malls, cars and other examples of
enclosed units with people inside.
Just a thought, and I (as usual) probably won't be able to follow
through on it, but if there's anything to it, someone might take it up.
cheers,
maggie
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