[MD] The Dynamics of Value

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This post is intended to explore the birth of Value, it's
incarnations, and its death.

There appear to be two contrary positions as to its birth.  Either we
are the source of value, or we are it's creation.  Both of these fit
within a metaphysics of Quality, where Quality depicts the perspective
of rhetoric.  That is, the song of existence.  A number of positions
can be taken which logically extend the birth of value into different
directions.  One of these could be the interplay of the subjective
with the objective.  Value can be seen as either the body or the mind
(to use an analogy).  It can be the material or the spiritual to use
another analogy.  It is my present interpretation that Value is the
source, not the result.  It creates from the very smallest to the very
largest.  It is inherent in our sense of time.  As such, the value
which we sense is part of a larger value impinged on us.  In this way,
man is not the measurement of all things that man measures, but
instead, man is a measurement.  He is a feature of value.  An analogy
for this would be the waves of an ocean.  Each wave is not creating
it's ascendence and descendence, but is a property of the ocean.

A question could be: Why do I call this Value?  This can be analogized
using the symbol of the Tao, the Yin and Yang.  There is a constant
interplay of better and worse, darker and brighter, fairer and uglier,
pleasure and pain, which defines every moment of existence.  This
cannot be a creation of man, because it exists without man.  For
example, the notion of better or worse exists prior to man, and our
incarnation interprets it in a human way.  Man does not have the power
to make these things up, only reveal them in our own way.

In the same way that a prism can distinguish light into various colors
(or frequencies), Value can be differentiated into various forms.
Using the light analogy, the color red has longer and shorter
wavelengths comprising it, which a the subtler grades of color.  It
can be said that Value creates a pull, which would mean that it is
directional.  While such directionality may seem in all directions,
historically it is possible to note the sum total of that direction
and map it.  Any such directionality would imply an outside source of
such value rather that one created by the individual.  However, the
inclusion of free will into the equation allows divergence within
individuals in how that follow such value.

Specific values do die.  This would imply that the source of all
values tends to oscillate.  Another wave analogy can describe such
behavior, that is the rising and falling of value.  Some values which
can represent spiritual dogma can arise like rogue waves, and last for
thousands of years, only to disappear again.  This would imply that
the directional attribute of Value is temporary and ever changing.  It
could be considered cyclical like a sine wave.  If one is to be in
harmony, one must read the waves and ride them.  This is also called
becoming one with Tao.

Perhaps someone should write The Tao of Motorcycle Maintenance.  Oh,
somebody already has.

Mark