[MD] The value of ritual

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Bo]
IMO, the static rituals of ANY level was what made the DQ want to 
flee it and establish a new level.

[Arlo]
It was stable patterns of value that ENABLED a new evolutionary level 
to appear. "DQ" does not "flee" a level, the level's steady 
foundation is from where the emergence of any new level comes, and it 
is stable patterns of value (the ongoing response to DQ within any 
level) that continues to provide the foundation for higher level 
patterns to respond to DQ in their own way.

[Bo]
The intellect of the West cemented into SOM ...

[Arlo]
I thought your opinion is that all intellect is SOM. As such this 
statement makes no sense.