[MD] MOQ basics - Lila Squad old-timers

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Hey Happy People. I Found this this morning, going through old  MOQ stuff, 
from an early Lila Squad period. I'd like to ask all of you, but 
particularly those of you who have been at this from the beginning if there 
is anything in this that you no longer agree with?

   1. Quality.  Quality is reality. Quality is the ethical principle of the 
good. Thus reality is a moral order. Quality, like reality, is known to us 
as awareness. As such, it is impossible to define.

   2. Morality. Morality is a synonym for Quality. Thus reality is a moral 
order. A phenomenon is considered moral, or high Quality, to the extent that 
it advances freedom.

   3. Value. Value is a synonym for Quality. Value encompasses what are 
usually known as causation and substance. Value is understood through the 
sense of value.

   4. Dynamic Quality and static quality. There are many ways to divide 
Quality but the best way is into patterns of Dynamic and static value or 
experience. Dynamic Quality is pure experience; static quality is filtered 
experience. Dynamic Quality creates the world; static quality preserves it. 
Dynamic Quality is more aesthetic than static quality. Neither Dynamic nor 
static quality can survive without the other.

   5. Static levels. Quality became manifest in our world by an evolutionary 
sequence of Dynamic Quality Events. Left in the wake of these events were 
four static levels of evolution -- inorganic, biological, social and 
intellectual. Each level is a static pattern of Quality, organized and 
governed by its own moral laws -- the laws of physics, biology, culture and 
reason respectively.

   6. Static awareness. Each higher level evolved from the lower level but 
has become a discrete level. From the point of view of any level it is only 
possible to evaluate phenomena at that level.

   7. Static dominance. Because each lower level is unable to evaluate the 
other levels, it considers itself to be the most moral and strives to 
dominate the others.

   8. Static morality. The levels at a higher stage of evolution are more 
moral than levels below. Intellectual patterns take moral precedence over 
social patterns, social patterns over biological and biological patterns 
over inorganic.

   9. Dependency. Higher qualities depend on lower qualities for survival. 
Thus a higher quality can only dominate a lower one in so far as it does not 
endanger its stability.

  10. Evolution. The universe is evolving away from low quality and towards 
high quality.

  11. Truth.Truth is an intellectual value pattern. There is no single 
truth, only high quality and low quality truths.

  12. Self. The self is undivided Quality, encompassing both Dynamic and 
static patterns. As with Quality, the self is both one and many.

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Regards

Chris