[MD] -elitist ideas

[MarshaV]

At 06:36 PM 3/19/2007, you wrote:
>[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.


Okay Arlo.