Hello Platt, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Platt Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [MD] growth and sustainability
Platt > Mel: > > High quality post. I especially liked your observations about 1) how > government meddling prolonged the great depression and 2) the moral aspect > of pain. The latter was specifically noted by Pirsig: > mel, Thank you. I am glad for your apreciation. I am always amazed at how much there is for us to think about and learn and how easliy we as a society just surrender the so called intellectual ground to 'credentialed experts.' And how easily we find ourselves repeating what is little more than slogan or 'iconic level' statements of old SQ arguments. The MOQ group seems to carry a high willingness to trample all over the groomed intellectual ground in a high DQ game of tag. (A good thing) Platt > "If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no > evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Suffering is the > negative face of the Quality that drives the whole process." (Lila,29) > m That is a great quote. I guess the niche-fitness of turtles is a low suffering one, hence their relative stability since before there were dinosaurs. And that contrasts considerably with the dynamics shown by primate-kind. thanks--mel Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
