[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
In Lila's Child (pp.256-258), Platt offered 13 basic principles of  the 
MOQ.  RMP annotated these principles by stating, "This summary of 
principles is excellent."

[Arlo]
No matter. What I find "at fault" in Platt's first principle is the 
elevation of DQ as "good" and the implication that SQ is "bad". DQ does not 
"flourish" in the absence of SQ, it degenerates into chaos. What allows 
"flourishing" is finding that harmony between "freedom" and "order", so 
that advances can be preserved. And as complexity increases, for new levels 
to emerge.

I would, therefore, foreground this balance.