[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

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Quoting Christoffer Ivarsson <IvarssonChristoffer at hotmail.com>:

> Hi Arlo
> 
> > [Chris]
> > Lagom is a word everybody should learn.
> >
> > [Arlo]
> > Despite Ham's expected response incorporating right-wing fear terms
> > (ooo... political correctness), I think this term captures
> > brilliantly what the MOQ's central tension is all about. We must have
> > balance, and this balance is not a sacrifice, it is what gives us the
> > best of all worlds. As Pirsig states, too much static leads to
> > stagnation, too much dynamic leads to chaos. Balance in the soul,
> > balance in the body politik, balance in all things.
> 
> 
> Exactly! I think so too, balance, the middle way, lagom.

"Balance" my foot. The theme of the MOQ is "betterness," not balance. Some things
are better than others, a fact that cannot be denied without contradiction.
The intellectual (individual) level is better than the social (collective) level.
They are not balanced, i.e, of equal moral weight. If all was balanced, there
would be no evolution.


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