It doesn't, but that impresses me as a lower level of intellectual quality
than the expression of ideas that can be related. We're all very much
enriched that Pirsig could give us another great book after 17 years. Don
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Lithien wrote:
> 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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