From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Oct 31 2004 - 14:48:57 GMT
Hello Platt:
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Platt Wrote:
> Pirsig is clear that DQ (the creative side of Quality) does care and has a
> burning desire for -- freedom.
>
> "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." (Lila, 9)
>
> A moral force for freedom . . . something millions have died for, and
> continue to do so to this day.
mel:
That is a pretty powerful core quotation and it stands
on its own well.
It is reassuring that the major candidates all seem to
favor the elimination of this pesky freedom by their
support of government intrusion into life to keep us safe.
Heartwarming the universal anti-responsibility agenda
made possible via the Ashcroftian Agenda and the final
death of Conservatism as value, usurped as label by
those big government Classical Liberals with a narrow
personal faux-Religious agenda...so to answer:
- Where does quality reside?
Not in the current set of candidates.
Not in the current bureaucracy.
Not in D.C.
Let's just hope millions need not die in the twisted
bowels of a socially driven vision of Static Quality,
dressed trecherously in the robes of freedom, while
freedom is kept bound in a dark cellar.
That would be truly sad.
Warily...
thanks--mel
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