[MD] Static Patterns Rock!

[david buchanan]

Marshan to Andre: 
The static world is not an illusion, the static world is like an illusion.


Andre to Marshan:
Do you believe that the atomic bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were illusory?



dmb says:

In what sense is the static world "like an illusion"? How can Marsha's description of static quality ("like an illusion") be reconciled with Pirsig's descriptions ("real as rocks and trees," "a rational, metaphysical basis" and "essential to the evolution of life" and "for real")? 

This is what happens when the MOQ is replaced with hacked up version of "Buddhism for Dummies"? 

"What the Metaphysics of Quality concludes ...that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good. These moral bads and goods are not just 'customs.' They are as real as rocks and trees." 

"In a subject-object understanding of the world these terms have no meaning. There is no such thing as 'human rights'. There is no such thing as moral reasonableness. There are subjects and objects and nothing else. This soup of sentiments about logically nonexistent entities can be straightened out by the Metaphysics of Quality. It says that what is meant by 'human rights' is usually the moral code of intellect vs. society, the moral right of intellect to be free of social control. Freedom of speech; freedom of assembly, of travel; trial by jury; habeas corpus; government by consent—these 'human rights' are all intellect vs. society issues. According to the Metaphysics of Quality these 'human rights' have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of life. They are for real."