[MD] The MoQ.org STRANGLES Creativity

[Case]

>> [Case]
>> You are glossing over too quickly the key point in the quote above: "all
>> other things being equal" That is balance. When all the big things are
>> in harmony smaller considerations have a chance to play a role. The
>> creative dynamic aspect can only appear when there is stasis at the
>> lower levels.

[Platt]
> What is moral is no "small consideration" in the MOQ.  The key to the
> MOQ isn't that that "all things being equal" but that it's moral for a
> doctor to kill a germ because the patient is "at a HIGHER LEVEL OF
> EVOLUTION." You will find the "higher level" of morality referred to
> throughout the MOQ. Unless you grasp the MOQ principle that the later
> the evolutionary appearance, the more moral, and that there's never
> stasis at the lower levels because they constantly compete for moral
> dominance, you've missed the significance of "Lila." Pirsig didn't
> write in "Inquiry into Balance and Harmony" but rather an "An Inquiry
> into Morality."
>
> Do you agree with Pirsig's claim that reality is an evolutionary moral
> hierarchy plus DQ?

[Case]
I think that reading Pirig's assessment of what morality is should change
your understanding of the term in much the same way as reading Campbell's
assessment of mythology should change your understanding of the term Myth.
Pirsig states explicitly in ZMM that Quality is the Tao and the Tao is all
about Balance and Harmony. The theory of evolution is also about balance
and harmony. Pirsig's system of levels does not work without this. If the
inorganic level is not balanced, biology does not occur. If biological
considerations are not in harmony, societies of any kind can not evolve
and if societies do not acheive stasis intellectual patterns are doomed.

DQ is exactly what the Jews would call the "still small voice" calling us
to something higher.