[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[MarshaV]

At 02:16 PM 12/5/2006, you wrote:
>[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.
>

Arlo,

I would say your paragraph says more about your values than Platt's 
statement.

Marsha