[MD] The first cut.

[david buchanan]

Ian said to dmb:
I don't find anything oxymoronic in Marsha pointing out that static patterns are themselves ever changing dynamically (evolving I would say).


dmb says:

If you can't grasp difference between stability and constant change, then you have no business discussing anything that requires precision of meaning.


That was the reason and here is the evidence...



RMP:
"With the identification of static and Dynamic Quality as the fundamental division of the world, Phaedrus felt that some kind of goal had been reached. ..Life can't exist on Dynamic Quality alone. It has no staying power. To cling to Dynamic Quality alone apart from any static patterns is to cling to chaos." "...static patterns, nevertheless, provide a necessary stabilizing force to protect Dynamic progress from degeneration. Although Dynamic Quality, the Quality of freedom, creates this world in which we live, these patterns of static quality, the quality of order, preserve our world. Neither static nor Dynamic Quality can survive without the other."