[MD] The value of static patterns.

[David Harding]

Hi Mark and Marsha,

Who likes static patterns? They're old and complex. They represent death... Pirsig says as much...

"They have no love. They offer no promise of anything. To succumb to them is to succumb to death, since that which does not change cannot live." - Lila

"(Static quality) is old and complex. It always contains a component of memory. Good is conformity to an established pattern of fixed values and value objects. Justice and law are identical. Static morality is full of heroes and villains, loves and hatreds, carrots and sticks. Its values don't change by themselves. Unless they are altered by Dynamic Quality they say the same thing year after year. Sometimes they say it more loudly, sometimes more softly, but the message is always the same." - Lila

Boring! YAWN!! I hate static patterns. They're so old and boring.  They don't change. Soo complex too. It makes my head hurt.  But then there's DYNAMIC QUALITY!! Ta DAA. That brings the change for the better that we want....

If I am to live my life, I'm going to follow Dynamic Quality and Dynamic Quality alone.  I'm going to ignore what static quality there is from the past and *Create* for the future and that's it.  Continually create things.  One thing after another. Entirely irrespective of those boring static patterns which exist already. That's the way to live my life! Just create - don't discover.. Forget static patterns. They suck. They're always about what did exist in past.  Who cares about the past? Let's look to the future to create for the future and the future alone!

What do you guys think?

Do you think there's any value in static patterns? Or should we always just keep our eyes on that undefinable Dynamic Quality and not worry about the static patterns of the past?

-David.