[MD] MOQ Recursion

[Matt Kundert]

Hi Ron,

Ron said:
I think you touch on an interesting subject because it would seem 
there would be reasons to value paradox. For example as a reaction 
to the social pressures of performance in a rigidly defined 
environment. I think most of us have experienced it as type of 
release from those expectations. An intellectual justification to not 
take those expectations too seriously.
I can see it taken to extremes in a symbolic way to represent the 
struggle of the individual with society.

Matt:
A social release of expectations, but too an intellectual release, a 
breaking of the rigid definitions.  I think both of those, separately, 
are good uses of paradox (combine them and say mu with a hammer).  
In particular, I think your last formulation, paradox as a representation 
of the struggle between individual and society, captures exactly 
Emerson's path: "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Matt