[MD] Replacing SOM

[ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR]

[Krimel]
But it is disturbing to see you adopting dmb's style of quotefesting.

[Arlo]
You've made a comment relating to term-use in his two books, and citing the texts of the books to show how the terms easily map (in line with Pirsig's comments) is "quotefesting"? That's more than a little absurd, but whatever. We can have the 'text' as part of discourse conversation in another thread another time.

I think I understand what you're trying to do, based on your "downside of DQ" comment (albeit still unaddressed). And that is to cast DQ as "chaos" and SQ as "order", and then since this distinction eliminates the undefined 'source' it requires you to back up and add that source, in your case simply "Quality".  The parallels given between ZMM and LILA don't work for you, as I see it, because you are casting Q/DQ/SQ as the Trimurti of creator/destroyer/preserver.

Would that a fair statement?