[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Chris to Khaled]
As for the answer I don't know, but I do believe balance is the key.

[Arlo]
As do I. What you see often here from some is the classic "Good v. 
Evil" battle continually recast, sometimes over the 
"individual/collective" question, and here over the DQ/SQ question. 
That is we are told that DQ is "freedom and glory and goodness" while 
SQ is "stifling evil and suffocation and the cause of all suffering". 
DQ becomes, as you suggest, simply another word for "God", and SQ 
becomes of course "Satan".

I don't think Pirsig sees it this way. I think DQ and SQ are cast 
together like the eternal Yin-Yang, inseparable, mutally dependent.

Pirsig himself says as much. "Without Dynamic Quality the organism 
cannot grow. Without static quality the organism cannot last. Both 
are needed." (LILA)

The goal would seem to be to create a system that while open to the 
greatest amount of DQ possible, the system reflects the static 
latching needed in order to sustain the Good things so achieved.

There is also a myth here that the "free market" was on the verge of 
creating a veritable Utopia when big, bad guvermint came in an ruined 
things. There is a reason why there was a social mandate to reign in 
the "free market", and that was the low quality of life experienced 
by the great majority following the "unregulated success" of the turn 
of the century. The market had created enormous wealth for Carnegies 
and Pullmans and the barons of industry, but the Chicago River was 
turned into a festering swamp of coagulated blood and rotting flesh. 
Miner's wives saw their husband's bodies dumped by the door of their 
shack and told to move out. Children were working 16 hour days in 
dangerous jobs, and earning less each week than the cost of a loaf of 
bread. Even moving into the 20the century, business dumped toxic 
chemicals without concern for any local populations, and when they 
were indicted here they simply began dumping their toxic chemicals 
wantonly across the border. In West Virginia, a mining company 
knowingly sent miners into silica-laden mines without the proper 
protection (too costly), and reaped huge profits while the miners 
choked to death on their own blood. Prior to public education, poor 
children had no chance of ever going to a school, education was 
reserved for the wealthy.

It was these conditions that moved people to demand regulation, it 
was not imposed by some evil outside agency, it was demanded by the 
people after witnessing the realities of an "unregulated market". 
Wage laws, child labor laws, workplace safety laws, pollution 
regulations, disposal regulations, all these were the result of 
people coming together and saying that our vision must be on greater 
concerns than simply "wealth production". But they did not do away 
with the "free market", they did not abolish private enterprise and 
entrepreneurship, rather they moved towards balance, and it is that 
balance which has led to the material quality of life in the West.