[MD] Catching up to Pirsig

[MarshaV]

Platt,

Betterness from the point-of-view of 'this world' as compared to the 
betterness of DQ's total freedom?  Is this the betterness 
missing?  Well you may be correct.  There doesn't seem to be any 
consideration for stability in most of the scientific drive for 
economic progress.  I like better James Lovelock's Gaia 
point-of-view, which says that in the end Earth will survive as it is 
a self-correcting system.  Mr. Lovelock is also optimistic in 
thinking that there will be humans that survive too.  And the Gaia 
hypothesis seems more like the MOQ interrelationship between static 
and dynamic forces.


Marsha



At 10:21 AM 4/14/2009, you wrote:
>Marsha,
>
>"But static patterns, nevertheless, provide a necessary stabilizing force
>to protect Dynamic progress from degeneration. Although Dynamic Quality,
>the Quality of freedom, creates this world in which we live, these patterns
>of static quality, the quality of order, preserve our world. Neither static
>nor Dynamic Quality can survive without the other." (Lila, 9)
>
>Does this passage answer your question?
>
>Platt
>
>
> > Platt,
> >
> > Does RMP specifically use the word 'progress'?  Is freedom always
> > progress?  From what point-of-view?
> >
> >
> > Marsha
> >
> >
> >
> > At 09:11 AM 4/14/2009, you wrote:
> > >Hi Marsha, KO, DMB, et al:
> > >
> > >The big thing missing from current evolution theories and applications
> > is
> > >any notion of things getting better or, as we MOQer's believe, progress
> > >towards greater freedom and versatility. It has always bothered me that
> > >precious little attention is paid to ever expanding consciousness over
> > time
> > >from the first little wiggle of life to the worldly mind of a Mozart or
> > an
> > >Einstein. In other words, science, totally dependent on measurable
> > surface
> > >data, has largely been unable to deal with the steady evolutionary
> > >expansion of interior awareness, the real indicator of Dynamic
> > progress,
> > >"Are you better off as a woman than a mouse?" The MOQ answer: "You
> > betcha."
> > >That's progress!
> > >
> > >Platt
>
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