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

[david buchanan]

ARLO said to Platt:
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. :-)

dmb says:
I think its important that the code of art not be taken so literally that we 
confuse it with the fine arts, either high or low. I think the idea is that 
our situation at this point in the evolutionary story is such that we can no 
longer be quite happy with mere conformity or obedience to our inherited 
cultural forms. This is not to say we should mindless rebel against them or 
otherwise reject them, but recognizing that fact that we are not only 
responsible for maintaining the forms of civilization, but, as Campbell puts 
it, each one of us is now called upon to also be a creative, innovative 
center and to thereby participate in the ongoing evolution of the culture. 
In this sense of creativity, physicists are artists too. It need not involve 
paint brushes or any kind of sensual beauty. In fact, one could make a case 
that elevating beauty to the status of DQ is a species of the same mistake 
the hippies made in confusing biological quality with Dynamic quality. One 
could make a case that this is a form of hedonism, the kind even Victorians 
could allow. I think the notion of beauty has to be expanded in the same way 
that creativity is expanded so as to accomodate the assertion that E=mc2 is 
beautiful, for example. The elegance of a physical equation is just one 
example of one kind of non-sensual beauty. I mean, it seems that Platt often 
confuses DQ with whatever pleases the eye and I think that would drastically 
undercut the importance and scope of what the MOQ is saying on this point.

Recently I learned from Wilber that this mistake was taken to new heights by 
the post-hippy era. There were some edgy European, quasi-Freudian 
intellectuals like Foulcat who pretty much took the orgasm as divine. (Now 
there's a church service I'd like to see!) As Wilber puts it, they confused 
the basic with the profound and regression with ascent. On this point, 
Pirsig's case seems even stronger than I thought.

dmb

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