[MD] The hard question.

[Dan Glover]

Hi Marsha

Your statement reminds me of this quote from Lila:

"Explicit definitions when given, demonstrate the nebulous character
of 'value,' " Blake and Davis said. "Here, for example, is the
definition of 'value-orientation' in a 437-page book on value
orientations:

"Value orientations are complex but definitely patterned
(rank­ordered) principles resulting from the transactional interplay
of three analytically distinguishable elements of the evaluative
process-the cognitive, the affective, and the directive elements-which
give order and direction to the ever-flowing stream of human acts and
thoughts as these relate to the solution of 'common human' problems."

"Poor Kluckhohn, Phaedrus thought. That was his definition. With that
lead balloon for a vehicle there was no way he could succeed.

"The attack made Phaedrus want to get in there and start arguing. The
statement that values are vague and therefore shouldn't be used for
primary classification is not true. There's nothing vague about a
value judgment. When a voter goes to the polling booth he's making a
value judgment. What's so vague about that? Isn't an election a
cultural activity? What's so vague about the New York stock exchanges?
Aren't values what they're dealing in? How about the U.S. Treasury?
Who in this world is more specific than the Internal Revenue Service?
As Kluckhohn saying, values are not the least vague when you're
dealing with them in terms of actual experience. It's only when you
bring back statements about them and try to integrate them into the
overall jargon of anthropology that they become vague."  [LILA]

Dan comments:

The way I see it, when I read definitions like this:

> I tend to think of 'interplay' as an ever-changing, conditionally co-dependent, impermanent and conceptualized processing in the infinite field of Dynamic Quality.

It makes me think of the 'lead balloon' quote I offered above... very
vague and nebulous. I did not mean 'interplay' in that sense at all,
which I am sure you know.

>How does 'interplay' work for you.

Dan:

If you've read LILA you already know the answer to this question.

Thank you,

Dan

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