[MD] -elitist ideas

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Marsha]
In a monistic metaphysics there is only one substance.  Once broken down into
the many (SQ), your explanations makes sense.  But there is no such division
within Quality or DQ.

[Arlo]
Quality *is* divided into static and Dynamic in Pirsig's metaphysics.
Quality/Value/Betterness is primary. It exists before the SQ/DQ split. What we
see as static patterns are the result of this immediate, primary Quality. Value
is not secondary. It is the first thing. 

When Pirsig refers to "Dynamic Quality" as "Dynamic morality" this is just what
he meant. When he writes of the brujo he is clear that DQ is Value/Betterness,
"He was just following some vague sense of "betterness" that he couldn't have
defined if he had wanted to."

"When inorganic patterns of reality create life the Metaphysics of Quality
postulates that they've done so because it's "better" and that this definition
of "betterness" -this beginning response to Dynamic Quality-is an elementary
unit of ethics upon which all right and wrong can be based." (LILA)

You can disagree with Pirsig, and as such I don't think I can (or want to) try
to change your mind.