[MD] Does Quality exist?

[Krimel]

[Bo]
I like your blunt style, but am impervious to such arguments. The proof 
of the MOQ is the enormous explanatory power - compared to the 
SOM - which is due to the level system. 

[Krimel]
Or one can regard the MoQ a way to construct and evaluate levels. It shows
us that whatever levels or point of view we adopt we will see similar
patterns of static and dynamic quality at work.

[Bo]
The initial Quality=Reality (all is value) sentence is a postulate and can't
be proved. I find Pirsig's many demonstrations futile, the proof is the new
world order and its ensuing clarity, but it - first - requires an open mind
and then a different understanding of the 4th. Level.

[Krimel]
Calling the Tao Quality was a serious mislabeling. Equating it with reality
is a violation of the spirit as well as the intent of leaving the Tao
undefined. Illusions on illusions of illusions of Value.

Note to Matt: Beware the Level Headed for they have lost The Way.