[MD] Churning Point?

[Platt Holden]

Dear Dan, 
 
You asked:
> Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you again but you seem to be saying 
> Quality is both what you like and what you do not like. If Quality is not 
> grasped, how is it known when it resurfaces?
 
What I wrote previously:
> >It isn't so. I don't own a Barry Manilow record, never have and never will. My
> >point was singing may be making a comeback after decades of muttering,
> >growling, screaming. spitting, shouting, jumping, gyrating, bumping and
> >grinding and other biological efusivenesses that make up the "mythos" of mosh
> >pit popular music.
> >
> >In other words, quality will eventually resurface despite the great vortex of
> >oceanic biological forces that threaten to drown us all.

If you misunderstood me, I'm to blame. Indeed, Quality is both what I like and 
what I don't like since Quality  (according to my interpretation of the MOQ) is 
found at different levels with each level "better" or more moral as you go from 
the inorganic level up to the level of art. So while at times I find high 
Quality at the biological level in enjoying the throes of sexual passion or a 
plate of delicately fried deep sea scallops, other aspects of that level like 
screams and beheadings I find of revulsionary low Quality. In other words, I 
like participatory sex and good food, but dislike torture and killing. As I 
traverse up the ladder of Quality, I find less to dislike and more to like 
until arriving at the level of art (which I interpret as the level where  
beauty resides) I find nothing to dislike at all. (Discoveries wrested from the 
unknown are inevitably beautiful as physicists have readily admitted.)  Thus, 
on a broad scale, a culture which reveres beauty, like the ancient Greeks, is 
more moral than a culture that deliberately targets Jewish children for 
slaughter. 

Finally I would suggest that Quality is grasped not by intellect but simply by 
"being"  whereby experience, the sine qua non of being, includes an instinctive 
Quality judgment, exemplified as I've said before, "Even an amoeba knows it's 
better here." 

Does that make any sense or have I confused you even more?

Best regards,
Platt