Platt,
Apropros of nothing I feel a desire to point out to you that the DQ that is
talked about here is not the Evolutionary Quality that produced the
universe.
This DQ is human DQ otherwise it could not be "the preintellectual
cutting edge of reality (No intellect when Evolutionary Quality operates).
I seem to be the only one who thinks that Pirsig talks about the operation
of two different types of Quality in Lila, Evolutionary Quality which was
present at the beginning and is responsible for the good and valuable and
moral universe which we inhabit, and Human Dynamic Quality which operates
alongside of Evolutionary Quality and is capable of producing functions
which are not moral. It seems he uses Evolutionary Quality and Dynamic
Quality to distinguish the two. Ken
Platt's message:
"Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of realty, the
source of all things, completely simple and always new. It was the
moral force that had motivated the brujo in Zuni. It contains no
pattern of fixed rewards and punishments. Its only perceived good
is freedom and its only perceived evil is static quality itself—any
pattern of one-sided fixed values that tries to contain and kill the
ongoing free force of life."
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