[MD] Missing the Point

[Heather Perella]

Hello David H.,


> [SA said]
> Thus, the tension, the frustrations, the seemingly
> personal attacks, all due to digging ourselves in
> for battle, instead of moving on to What? What are
> we to move on to?  Where are we to go from SOM to
> MOQ?  What does that mean? I really wouldn't mind a
> dialogue here.

     [David H.] 
> I think this highlights a very key point here.  It's
> interesting because when you break it down some here
> call themselves 'Pirsigian' or 'MOQers' but I've
> never seen any real effort to try and define what
> these two terms actually mean.  Or maybe that's just
> it.  Maybe 'the whole point' of us coming here is
> that each day, day in day out, we come here
> precisely TO define what a Pirsigian and MOQer is. 
> What do you think SA? What is 'the point'?

     I would say once somebody begins to use Pirsig
and MOQ terminology to help define their own point,
then that person is culturally a Pirsigian and MoQ....
BUT hopefully that could end up meaning or providing
identity to a person that in the end we would just
call such a person - a human being.  To get stuck with
any labels, wouldn't that usurp the whole MoQ?  A
point here, though, is as you say, "...day in day
out... TO define..."  Yet, we probably shouldn't get
side-tracked into a debate that becomes SOM, due to
the battle lines will stay entrenched, and as in world
war one, when both sides on certain parts of the
battle front decided to play a game of soccer and
chat, oh, the SOM generals (to use metaphor) saw this
as traitorous.  The war must go on, hence the stuck
divisional line between S and O as in S/O.

Maybe?
SA

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