[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[Mike Craghead]

Hi Marsha, love the strokes you're painting across this thread, but I 
gotta go with Arlo: balance, balance, balance...

The "all DQ" existence you're describing really works to a point; you 
are open to more experience, you are willing to try new things, meet new 
people, evolve, grow and enjoy. But all DQ has it's down side: her name 
is Lila. Of course we all love the old girl, but after we hung out with 
her for a while, wouldn't she end up reminding us of the constantly 
stoned college roommate that made getting our report done such a pain in 
the ass? She's all DQ, and doesn't preserve her SQ patterns enough to 
have a place to stay, food to eat. Imagine the person she could have 
become, had she managed to gather some SQ (maybe if she'd gone through 
the customized therapy that RMP was ready to execute)? Lila the painter?

Some of the best art on earth is generated by folks who claim to want to 
ride the DQ taxi. Problem is, DQ can't drive. DQ hits lamp posts and 
German Sheperds, good or not. If DQ isn't balanced with SQ, you get low 
quality art. All-DQ art is bad art. Cathartic, mind-blowing, 
transformative art that gives you a DQ feeling up and down your spine, 
only does that because the artist, consciously or by accident, managed 
to spill all of that DQ out, in as SQ context. That is, the real DQ 
can't be experienced by anyone besides the artist, until the artist can 
somehow communicate it. The means of communication, the media, the 
context, the stage... that's SQ. And if the artist wields the SQ well, 
some of the DQ smacks the viewer in the head too.

Re: "Spreading the Word"
Tricky, this.
Like I tell the folks who knock on my door with literature, nothing 
personal, but I'm offended by evangelism. Maybe they just want to share 
with me what they truly believe is the right path, which may come from 
an honest caring for their fellow human (of course there are lots of 
weasels out there selling God for cash, but let's sidestep them for a 
moment). I need to find my own path and it bugs me if you want to show 
me yours. Just live. If I like what I see and want some advice, I'll ask 
for it.

Same with the MOQ. We live it if we believe in it, and if anybody asks 
about it, we tell them. But the MOQ doesn't have evangelism built into 
it (thank doG!), so it's not going to sell like hotcakes. We spread the 
word by living... if you build it, they will come. Or not. But it's not 
up to us anyway, is it?

Mike Craghead
humboldtmusic.com
humboldtmusic.com/mc
humboldtmusic.com/sarimike

> Try this (stolen from Pirsig). With your SOM glasses on, you see a 
> dog and think, "German Shepherd." With your MOQ glasses on you see a dog and think, "That's a good dog."
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> That doesn't carry us very far. But, maybe it's a start to what we can all get behind to spread the word about the MOQ.
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