Hi Mary, squad ...
>After taking a month off from the Squad, I've returned to find - chaos!
>This is great! I love it!
This is the big confusion. Chaos seems to be the antithesis of quality.
Pirsig places it at the lowest level of morality (below his inorganic
level). But I believe that Pirsig's writing tends to confuse chaos and
DQ. Chaos implies lack of meaning. Mary's "love it" implies that she is
willing to look for meaning to end the chaos. Go for it Mary - I
personally am close to giving up!
Mary also brings up:-
>#1 Affirmative Action has come up here lately. ...
I'm going to come straight out and say that my own view is that the MoQ
may well support affirmative action!
Remember all my past ramblings about "Potential" and "Realization". I
always use "Potential" in analogy to its strict scientific meaning of
potential energy. Water has the potential to siphon out of a sink, first
running up to the edge (against potential), and then down (with
potential) to the floor. The overall potential change favours the
downward flow, but that siphon won't start on its own. It first has to
be primed.
Affirmative action stems from a belief that some groups are excluded
from certain activities because of historic discrimination rather than
inherent inferiority. The inequality of the situation has a potential to
change, but won't do so spontaneously. It needs to be primed. Reverse
discrimination is a priming step. It is valid if the reverse
discrimination is a temporary step which leads to an improved situation.
To put it another way, the ends justify the means.
Jonathan
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