[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Arlo had said]
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".

[Marsha]
There was no use of 'good' or 'bad'.

[Arlo]
Hence the use of the word "implication".

[Marsha]
DQ might degenerate into chaos in the total absence of SQ, but Platt did 
not say 'total absence'.

[Arlo]
Nor does he say some is required. He says DQ "flourishes" when free of 
"static dictates". Not "when partially free". Not "when eased of". "Free". 
Can you explain to me what in Platt's statement would lead not one to 
suppose that a complete removal of "static dictates" would lead to the most 
"flourishing"?

[Marsha]
This is not my experience.  This sounds, to me, very boring.  This clump of 
static qualities likes to fly!!!

[Arlo]
That you enjoy jumping forward more than you like putting your feet down 
hardly negates that if you did not put your feet down your life would be 
unpatterned chaos. While this may sound like "fun", I doubt you really want 
that. I mean, if you did you'd be out in the woods living a completely 
Dynamic, moment-to-moment life. And I'm not talking Xena Warrior Princess 
either, since she  was part of a social pattern network. I mean feral-child 
Marsha, no language, no words, no "static" patterns, just moment-to-moment 
DQ. Yes, you may like to fly, Marsha, but the fact that you are here belies 
your balance.

[Marsha]
There is a need for both, to sustain SQ and flight from it.  Balance might 
be good for some, but not good for others.

[Arlo]
These two statements contradict. Yes, there is a need for both, and that is 
what balance is.