[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
The point you made is Quality doesn't create anything. Do you see the words
"creation" and "creative" in the above quote? What do you think he's talking
about, public housing? 

[Arlo]
Okay. Again. Yes, he "uses" the word "create". But he also does here.

"When inorganic patterns of reality create life the Metaphysics of Quality
postulates that they've done so because it's "better" and that this definition
of "betterness" -this beginning response to Dynamic Quality-is an elementary
unit of ethics upon which all right and wrong can be based." (LILA)

In this second quote, its certainly not Quality doing the "creating", but the
inorganic patterns in "response to Dynamic Quality".

I am saying, this quote more accurately captures the meaning. And I've shown
how.

For example, if you say "Quality created carbon atoms" or "Quality created the
book LILA", you completely eliminate freedom from the equation. Subatomic
particles had no "choice" but to form "carbon atoms". Pirsig had no "choice"
but to create LILA.

DQ = unexpectedness = freedom = choice.

And this means that things are not "preplanned", but unexpected things get
latched.

[Platt]
Dialogue with you? Learn something from you? You missed your calling as a
comedian.  

[Arlo]
Its a shame you won't try to learn something here, Platt. Yes, from me. And I
am trying my hardest to have a dialogue here, but you keep resorting to insult
and evasion. Why is that?

[Platt]
Obviously you see in the MOQ only what you want to see.

[Arlo]
This is funny since I am the only one taking into account the entirety of his
use of the word "create" AND how best to understand that according to his other
descriptions of the MOQ.

You provide the quote "Quality creates the world in which we live", and I am
saying that read like this it destroys the meaning Pirsig build everywhere
else. It is far better to say, "the world emerges out of responses TO Quality;
interwoven, inter-related, intercontextual responses ranging from the inorganic
to the intellectual level".

And THAT is the meaning provided in the quote I have given.

What is really sad is that THIS is the freedom in the MOQ. In your planned and
orchestrated world where man was destined to appear, created for a reason,
there is no freedom. You in effect appropriate the language of the MOQ but pour
the words onto a theistic revision.

Again, I am really sorry you prefer attacking me, than taking the time to
understand this.