[MD] What "moral revolution" is called for by the MOQ?

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
That Arlo likes amateur performers. 

[Arlo]
Yes. Arlo is not an elitist. I'm actually a bit surprised by this comment,
Platt, what with you being an "amateur artist" and all. One of the street
performers in Tuebingen that sticks in my mind was a violinist, who was really
Good. In the same vein, I enjoy seeing artists display their works. The "Arts
Festival" in State College is one of my favorite times of year. Good food. Good
music. Lively talk. Art. 

[Arlo previously]
The Hippies rejected both intellectual and social patterns, but confused
biological with Dynamic Quality. That's the place to start.

[Platt]
By rejecting social patterns they created the nightmare Pirsig describes in
Chapter 24. (See quote above). If they could reject intellectual patterns they
would destroy the static level from which DQ can spring to a higher
understanding.  

[Arlo]
Perhaps. But it is more moral for an idea to destroy a society than for a
society to destroy an idea. And Pirsig stresses the that "moral revolution" of
the hippies moved away from both static intellectual AND static social
patterns, and that this was NOT the problem, but the SOURCE of its morality.
Only when the hippies would later mistake biological for Dynamic Quality would
the revolution "fail".

"The Hippie revolution of the sixties was a moral revolution against both
society and intellectuality."

"Phaedrus thought that this Hippie revolution could have been almost as much an
advance over the intellectual twenties as the twenties had been over the social
1890s..."

"The revolutionaries of the sixties thought that since both are anti-social, and
since both are anti-intellectual, why then they must both be the same. That was
the mistake."

That sums it up nicely.

So I'd say the "moral revolution" is just what Pirsig says, away from society
AND intellectuality and TOWARDS Dynamic Quality.

And if "art" is towards DQ, then a few lutes and drums are a good thing. But
don't worry, an orchestra playing "highbrow" music would also be permitted to
tag along. :-)