[MD] Every Day is a Winding Road

[John Carl]

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I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man

He says he's been down this road more than twice

He was high on intellectualism

I've never been there but the brochure looks nice

Jump in, let's go

Lay back, enjoy the show

Everybody gets high, everybody gets low,

These are the days when anything goes


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Theme song for a roller coaster based metaphysic... everybody gets high,
everybody gets low.


And these are nuthin' but the days when anything goes...


So here goes nuthin'.


nuthin' ain't nearly high-falutin' as NoThing, so for now, we'll stick with
nuthin' in the hopes that it will develop into sumthin'.  It's honestly
starting to feel like it just might.  Just gotta keep that nasty
intellectualism at bay and we'll be all right.


I've been swimming in a sea of anarchy

I've been living on coffee and nicotine

I've been wondering if all the things I've seen

Were ever real, were ever really happening


Lord bless her, Cheryl Crow, ladies and gentlemen.  Let's give her a round
of applause for deep metaphysical speculation you can dance to.  With such
an introduction a guy can't help but be truly humble in any embellishments
to what has already been said.


But yours truly, the loquacious one, has a sudden urge to  latch.  A whole
bunch of input from y'all has been poring into my brain, some in response,
some out of the blue, but all informative and blessed.  I want to express my
gratitude, along with my version.


First:  Quality is defined only in Experience.


This formulation seems simple enough and not incongruent with the MoQ, but
is more far reaching than appearances first display.  For congruent
experiences of Quality help build a picture of what Quality is.   And
there's a multiplying effect, I believe.  Just as in the principles of
permaculture and Fukuoka gardening where "the more life you got, the more
life you get." The more Quality you share, the more Quality there is.


So the definition of Quality is an ongoing communal process, while the
objective or intellectual definition of Quality is impossible.


Second:


The levels are evolutionary latchings oriented along a DQ/sq axis which
defines morality on every level AND creates an evolutionary hierarchy
through the levels.


Thus ultimately, true morality is defined not by a static ordination, but by
orientation toward the dynamic.


An important understand of the term "Dynamic"  is that it doesn't always
mean growing or changing.  Many systems exist in a dynamic tension which is
very stable and yet just the opposite of stuck or static.  It is a centered
place where the options are expanded.  It is the opposite of static and it
is opposed to chaos.  Chaos or disorder is not dynamic.  It always looks the
same, like a tv turned on to a non-station with static filling the ears and
eyes.  Static is chaotic.  Chaos is static.  The dynamic blossoms and
changes like a bud into a flower.


The DQ in biological evolution is called "adaptability".  That which is more
adaptable is more dynamic, even when active adaptation is not occuring.


My third and final (for now)  semi-heretical statement:


The 4th level's highest static value is the third.  Intellectual quality
does not  exist until its written in books and handed along.