In a message dated 98-10-27 00:04:14 EST, you write:
<< Persig presents a number of examples in which value sets are in
contradiction with each other. Example: All people are equal (Indian)--Some
people are more equal (European)= celebrity love/hatred. My question is
whether these contradictions in values have anything to do with a
capitalistic market economy. For example: If everyone in the U.S. had the
same values how would this effect the market? Is the market fueled by an
uncertainty in the quality of a static pattern of substance, pattern of
processing, pattern of social organization, pattern of ____? Is parallelism
in our society useful because there is a uniform uncertainty in the quality
of any process? >>
I think that the main point to Pirsig is not that the two value sets are in
contradiction, but that both have a chance to create Dynamic Quality. It is
uncertain in that it is unknown that any given value pattern will produce a
high value pattern, but it is the possibility and the diversity that counts.
In many ways, it is why a capitalistic economy works and the "democratic"
government is more Dynamic than earlier patterns of economy and govt. And as
Pirsig says, even if we can't say what Quality is, we know it when we see it.
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