[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> The intellectual (individual) level is better than the social 
> (collective) level.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I'm not talking about Platt's neocon MOQ, nor do I have any desire 
> to, I'm talking about Pirsig's.

Let's talk Pirsig's MOQ:

"But what he saw at this point was a social pattern of -values, a film, 
devouring an intellectual pattern of values, his book. It would be a lower 
form of life feeding upon a higher form of life. As such it would be 
immoral. And that's exactly how it felt: immoral." (Lila, 20). 

For Arlo, lower and higher forms of life are equal. Comical.     

> [Platt]
> If all was balanced, there would be no evolution.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Wrong. It is balance (not stasis) that allows evolution. Without it, 
> new directions would not latch on one hand, and on the other there 
> would be no new directions.

Balance implies stasis -- physical equilibrium.