[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[david buchanan]

John said:
"... for those concerned with Quality, the point isn't to weigh in on the side of the right, or the left, but the good."



Ian replied:
You don't say John, (agreed, any ideology is anathema to quality and value). The point is how ? 



dmb says:
Any ideology is anathema to quality? I think that's extremely unhelpful. It's just another way to take both sides and undermine the most basic distinctions entailed in any realistic political debate.
As Pirsig tells it, the political conflicts in the 20th century are a struggle between two distinct value systems; social and intellectual. The extreme forms would be fascism and communism respectively and in we see a milder version of this battle in the conflict between today's conservatives and liberals. There is a sense in which the MOQ is both conservative and liberal. In the same way that the MOQ insists that we need both static and dynamic quality, the social order needs both stability and an openness to growth and innovation. But for the most part the battle is between social values and intellectual values as they are reflected in the stances of these rival ideologies. 

Just as a thought experiment, how about if you make a list of intellectual values favored by conservative ideology. Good luck.