[MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Mary,

You had said:
>The thing
> that makes the whole construct of the MoQ WORK is the idea that sets of
> patterns only achieve the status of a Level when they cease to support the
> level they are in and go off to meet ends of their own.  Brilliant!

Steve:
I disagreed, and the quote you provided demonstates that Pirsig calls
higher levels "levels" before they go off on purposes of their own.
The fact that the fist intellectual patterns offered freedom to social
patterns does not mean that they did not constitute a level in
Pirsig's hierarchy of types of patterns of value.


> Lila Chapter 12 pg 101 (Electronic)
>...
> A primary occupation of every level of evolution seems to be offering freedom to lower levels of evolution.  But as the higher level gets more sophisticated it goes off on purposes of its own.


Best,
Steve