[MD] Awareness and consciousness in the MOQ

[Arlo Bensinger]

[John]
All I'm saying Arlo, is that I don't read the MoQ as a map. I read the 
MoQ as a compass.  I'll make my own map, thank you.

[Arlo]
Which is effect what we all do, really. We are all part of the larger 
historical dialogue, and from that we listen and we speak and we try to 
make sense of what's in front of us. A compass, to me, would seem to 
indicate a certain 'objectivity' (it always points 'north' regardless of 
where you are or what situation you are in), but that may be my own use 
of the word.

[John]
It's not designed to be useful to anyone else. My map is strictly  for me.

[Arlo]
I suppose it depends on how you define "useful". I find maps others have 
made of certain topographies useful if for no other reason that to see 
how others defined certain problems and how they suggested they be 
resolved.