Re: MD Levels of Quality

From: Lithien (Lithien@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Oct 12 1998 - 23:51:49 BST


hi, don:

since when does insanity need to dialogue with someone? most often they do
very well dialoguing with themselves...lol

what do you think?

lithien

Who looks outside, dreams;
Who looks inside, awakes.

~*~Carl Jung~*~
http://members.tripod.com/~lithien/Lila.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald H Crawford Jr <dhc@acsu.buffalo.edu>
To: moq_discuss@moq.org <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: MD Levels of Quality

>
>I believe I must question the absolute hierarchical, independent, and
>competing nature of Pirsig's 4 levels of quality. While it may be true, in
>fact I probably agree with it, there is such a danger in bowing to the
>higher level at the expense of the lower levels. In other words, you can
>have low quality ideas that may be quite harmful to the quality of the
>other levels. It seems to me that if an idea is truly of high quality, it
>would enhance the quality of experiencing at other levels. Often we see
>insanity the result of the intellect departing from its moorings to the
>point of sacrificing the other dimensions of experiencing. There is a
>dynamic tension between the levels that is a qualitative balancing act of
>sorts. A ravaged body won't generate ideas for long, and a social isolate
>won't have anyone to dialogue the ideas with...
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