[MD] Chaos

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Marsha]
Someone might say, "This is not "freedom" as I understand it, but chaos."   This
seems like the scientific version of 'BOO!!!'.  Any reason why this isn't
baloney?

[Arlo]
Someone might say? You mean "Arlo said". I'm not using "chaos" in strictess
mathematical sense here, simply stating that without those "static dictates"
your existence would be akin to a feral child. Your "freedom" to go to a bar a
drink a brew with a buddie depends on a whole mountain of "static dictates".
Your "freedom" to go into the woods and listen to the birds entails not only a
whole host of things you can safely walk away from and not worry about losing
while you're there, but a host of poetry, knowledge and memories, all made
possible by "static dictates". That you try to loosen them in the moment, to
increase the flow of DQ and move forward, is a given, but that they underscore
your experience, and help in making it possible, it also a given. When I am
riding up Canadian Highway 41, from Napanee on the way to Algonquin Provincial
Park, my Zen moments are made possible not only by following DQ, but several
boatloads of static dictates underneath me, from the machine to the roads to
money to buy poutine when I get hungry (and a system there that makes it
available). Where it NOT for "static dictates", I would NOT have the freedom to
take that ride. That's my point.