Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 How Inorganic Reality Influences Social Morality00:03:47 Native Americans Viewed the Universe as a Conscious Actor00:08:00 Static Patterns of Value as “Shadows” of Dynamic Quality00:12:05 The Limited Arises From and Returns to The Limitless00:14:07 Evolutionary Complexity as the Proper Spectrum of Morality00:17:50 Paradox Occurs When Different Levels of Value Disagree?00:19:41 Rationality: What Ratio of Value Systems are Weighted in Any Given Decision00:25:02 Production Designs Involve Subliminal Messaging from the Environment00:27:07 An Analogy of Pedestrians in New York and Two Red Blood Cells…00:33:47 Native Americans Conceived of Reality as a Participatory Phenomenon00:35:57 American Values as a Synthesis of European and Native American Values00:40:05 The Westward Manifestation of American Values in Architecture00:45:28 Native Americans are Plainspoken: “The Voice of the Plains”00:47:28 American Cowboys Appropriated Native American Values00:50:43 NYDIG00:51:52 Notable Native American Traits00:54:48 Conditions of Scarcity as an Evolutionary Driver of Value Systems00:58:00 Franz Boas and The Scientism of Cultural Anthropology01:02:02 Bicoastal US Value Systems Reflected in Socioeconomic Institutions01:06:04 Dynamic Quality is the Pursuit of Metaphysical Freedom01:07:58 Visualizing the Fields of Value We All Live Within01:09:53 The Eye of God, Material Engagement, and Civilizational Bootstrapping01:12:58 Poetic and Pragmatic: God and Free ExchangeSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

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