[MD] Chance v. Dynamic Quality

[Platt Holden]

> [Andre]
> Okay Arlo, you're pressing me for a reaction.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I'm not pressing you. I think there is good dialogue to be had here. 
> 
> [Andre]
> DQ brings nothing about. People's responses to DQ bring things about.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I'll stop you here, say I agree, but I'd add.... "Everything's responses
> to DQ
> bring things about". This is the point I was trying to make with the
> airplane.
> The inorganic components of the plane WERE responding to DQ, only from
> their
> vantage and repertoire. What we could see this (and all events) as are
> the
> conflicts between all things responding with varying repertoires to DQ.
> 
> Take the black death, an instance where bacteria, following their own
> repertoire of responding to DQ wiped out around half of Europe's
> population.
> This is an instance where there was a conflict between bacteria and
> people,
> both responding to DQ in their own way. The MOQ says its moral for people
> to
> win that conflict (to eradicate the bacteria), and I'd agree, but notice
> that
> "DQ", if anything, is wholly ambivalent about the survival of humans. If
> another rogue asteroid causes the extinction of the human race "DQ" is
> involved
> only as the force that, inorganically, the asteroid was responding to. 
> 
> [Andre]
> Look at the soul searching inside the NASA organisation after the disaster
> with
> the Challenger. This has nothing to do with DQ it had everything to do
> with
> shutting out DQ...
> 
> [Arlo]
> I'd say that the steel and fuel molecules and inorganic components of
> the
> shuttle and rocket responded to DQ (from their inorganic repertoire of
> probability) every step of the way. The rocket did not crash because of
> a
> neglect of DQ, it failed because the inorganic components of the rocket
> were
> allowed to MUCH response to DQ. The intellectual (and social, and
> biological)
> components of this flight depended precisely on ensuring that the
> inorganic
> components of the rocket had NO room to behave any differently than
> planned.
> When that failed, and the atoms and whatnot composing the rocket were
> "freed"
> from their prison, they responded to DQ in a way that caused a conflict
> between
> them and the intellectual-social-biological components, and the
> inorganic
> components won.
> 
> Anyway, that's my take on it. 
 

"And beyond that is an even more compelling reason; societies and thoughts 
and principles themselves are no more than sets of static patterns. These 
patterns can't by themselves perceive or adjust to Dynamic Quality. Only a 
living being can do that." (Lila, 13)