[MD] What's your Quality Balance ratio?

[Dan Glover]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Todd A. Carter
<tcarter at activelinkarts.com> wrote:
> 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.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the term: Fuck it. What you
seem to be doing is reverting to biological values rather than
transcending the social. Sitting in bars and picking up strange may
seem Dynamic but it only seems that way. Hmmm... I'd say look it up in
the dictionary but I fear the definition I'm pointing to won't be
found there.

No. Instead, try to think of Fuck it as more of a
set-me-loose-from-static-quality type of thinking. For instance, the
wife/significant other wants Todd to attend a function Todd would
rather not attend. Tood says Fuck it. He goes to the function and
thoroughly enjoys himself. They come home afterwards and make mad love
till the birds are twittering. Todd, however, says Fuck it, stays
home, gets drunk, and in a stupor, berates his wife when she comes
home smelling of other-man.

Dynamically, there's no comparison so conventionally
(biologically/socially) speaking my definition of Fuck it doesn't
appear to make immediate sense. Confusion is bound to arise.

>
> 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.

I couldn't disagree more. But wait... let me introduce you to Mr Ham Priday...

>
> 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.

It's my opinion that unless a person is prepared to roll up their
shirt sleeves and get in there up their elbows, it's better they stay
out of the kitchen. But in fact I cannot think of one person who
claims to know enough to run the economy. There are those who realize
they know enough to influence the economy by what they say about it,
sure. Too much bitching, methinks, and not enough doing.
>
> 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.

Why, thank you! My words are (of course) all in good humor though with
serious as hell undertones. We're all creatures of patterns, lovers of
static quality, thralls to the Giant. We know there has to be more
than this. But where is it? Oh, wait... I will have to think about
that later... it's noon and time for lunch!