[MD] Another parallel

[X Acto]

It seems as though any static mechanism that is open to Dynamic Quality 
must also be open to degeneracy to falling back to lower forms of quality.
This creates the problem of getting maximum freedom for the emergence of 
Dynamic Quality while prohibiting degeneracy from destroying the evolutionary 
gains of the past. Americans like to talk about all their freedom but they think 
it's disconnected from something Europeans often see in America: the degeneracy 
that goes with the Dynamic.
It seems as though a society that is intolerant of all forms of degeneracy shuts
 off its own Dynamic growth
and becomes static. But a society that tolerates all forms of degeneracy degenerates. 
Either direction can be dangerous. The mechanisms by which a balanced society grows
 and does not degenerate are difficult, if not impossible, to define.
How can you tell the two directions apart? Both oppose the status quo. Radical idealists
 and degenerate hooligans sometimes strongly resemble each other.
Jazz was generally considered degenerate music when it first appeared. 'Modern' art was 
considered degenerate.-lila ch17