[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[David Harding]

Hi SA and Platt,
> Hey Platt,
>
>  
>   
>>      Platt said:  "There is no way to separate ideas
>> from individuals. As you pointed out, even Lila
>> although she's intellectually nowhere, has ideas."
>>
>>      There's no way to separate the chaotic level
>>     
> from
>   
>> the individual either.  Also, Hitler was an
>> individual.  
>>     
>
>      Platt said:  "I don't remember Pirsig identifying
> a chaotic level. Is that something you've added to the
> MOQ? Also,about Hitler. What's your point?"
>
>      Somewhere I was introduced to this chaotic level.
>  I looked in Lila, and saw nothing of it.  Thank you
> for pointing this out to me.  This is what happens
> when I begin to change a philosophy without realizing
> it.  
>   

No you haven't changed it. From Lila page 183:

"In the MOQ there's the morality called the "laws of nature", by which 
inorganic patterns triumph over chaos."

 From Lilas Child:

"Dynamic Quality and chaos are both patternless, and so it
would seem they have a lot in common, particularly the
fact that you can’t say anything about them without getting
into static patterns. But if you do, you can say that
Dynamic Quality is good and precedes static improvement.
It is the source of experience. Chaos, by contrast is the
condition of total destruction. You can’t call it either good
or bad. It is not the source of anything."

>      As to Hilter, well, he is an individual so he
> fits on the individual level.  He staged a new society
> of pure race, yet, this individual emphasized a
> celebrity establishment, an archetypal personality
> that a whole society was to follow.  The dismissal of
> the Dharmakaya light, which peers beyond the culture
> of one or many. 
>   
You've noticed the Dharmakaya light?

Cheers,

David.