[MD] Objectivism and the MOQ

[LARAMIE LOEWEN]

Morning Ham, Readers --

Just have about two minutes, so this will have to be brief.  And this perhaps is not
the most appropriate subject heading under which to be posting this, or maybe it is.
Anyway, Dr. McWatt mentioned that from the perspective of the MoQ, the human 
being is a multi-level being composed of Pirsig's first four levels, but he left out DQ.
DQ is more than a trans-human -state-, it's also a human perspective, stage or 
level.

Borrowing from the work of Ken Wilber, human's evolve through at least three general 
stages of development from "egocentric", to "world centric", to "Kosmocentric" - or pre-
rational, to rational, to trans-rational.  The rational stage is the home of the 
dreaded SOM perspective, which some believe we want to transcend.  But we never
transcend SOM - a trans-rational, Kosmocentric perspective embraces SOM in a dynamic,
open-ended way.  

We become aware of PA starting with the rational level of development, and many 
get stuck there.  But PA expands all the way to this universal, cosmic perspective, where
individuals experience their identity and not less than the force of evolution that created 
the manifest universe.  I believe Essentialism is ultimately a universal, Kosmocentric perspective. 

Hopefully more later, but I think this has something to do with why many see Essentialism 
and the MoQ as being so opposed.  INDIVIDUAL HUMANS evolve to, and manifest DQ, so DQ 
is also a potential component of the "compound individual".  

I think your thesis would have more explanatory power if you incorporated Self evolution
more explicitly. 

Cheers,
Laramie