[MD] What's your Quality Balance ratio?

[Todd A. Carter]

Well, here we go... Dan and Tood's big adventure...

Unfortunately, chaos does not provide increased Quality.  Just walking away
and saying "fuck it" does not provide the seeming freedom that Dan
romanticizes.  I've done that before.  However, the same experience of
"There's got to be more" travelled with me as I departed and landed and
rebuilt.  It is seemingly built in... and even when I've gotten away, I've
still got myself to deal with.  No amount of drinking or debauchery can make
that hunger go away for long.

So, what is it that I hunger for?  I would say Dynamic Quality... and in the
same breath... with the same words God.  Evolution without DQ is random
chance... ok so those monkey's are still typing.  Fortunately, they
converted to digital and they are no longer killing trees at the same rate.
But, with no guidance, no review, no learning, it just isn't going to come
together in a sonnet.  Imagine the frustration of the reviewer who gets to
the last sentence of King Lear and gets "asdfua ashdllie dhisa." Instead of
the correct text.  Back to the monkeys.

And so, I sit in a static world, overrun by intellectuals who believe that
they are smart enough to run an economy.  Who haven't learned from the mess
they've created over the last 96 years.  Yes, you can put in that place your
favorite example of intellectual over-steer.

Yes, we need more dynamic quality, but... as Dan rightly points out, "No one
can tell Todd how to live a more Dynamic life."

Todd

P.S. Dan, the humor you provided was so insightful in so many different
ways.  I'm still looking over my shoulder.

<Dan>

It appears (to me) as if Todd needs an adventure, an emptying out of
old static patterns. I'd tell him he needs a vacation but the first
thing he'd do is get online and start planning it all out, right down
to the last detail. That is precisely what Tood doesn't need. Oops. I
misspelled Tood's name. But I like it. Tood is much more Dynamic,
don't you think? Todd is odd but Tood's the dude. Tood the Dynamic
Dude. Gosh. I think I'm onto something important here.

Now, where was I? Oh yes... Todd, Todd... aren't you the guy who
wanted to use the MOQ to improve your relationships in life? More
specifically, improve your relationship with your wife? Ha! Excuse my
laughter (actually it was more of a derisive snort) but how's that
going for you? Not well, I suspect.

Let me guess... when Todd gets up in the morning he knows what his day
holds. Everything is planned: when he bathes, when he shits, when he
eats, when he works, when he fucks. Once in a great while, something
will surprise Todd but he quickly puts it in its place by
intellectualizing it away. So by and large, Todd's hours are filled
with unimportant busy work that whiles away the time until it's time
to lay his head on the pillow and start it all over again. Todd's life
isn't 95% static... it's 99.99999% static. That's why Todd wonders if
there's more.

What Todd has to do is learn to say: Fuck it. It is a hard thing to
learn. Todd has had expectations placed upon him since the day he was
born, by family and friends, people who love and care for him. Those
relationships keep Todd in his place. If he suddenly does something
out of character, those familar with Todd will let him know in subtle
and not so subtle ways that he needs to conform or risk alienation
from the goup.

No one can tell Todd how to live a more Dynamic life. If they tried,
it wouldn't be Dynamic. Todd has to figure it out for himself. But he
doesn't know how. So he comes here. He goes there. He runs around in
circles, desparately seeking for something that's already his. Wake
up, Todd! Your life's a wasting...