MoQ involves a way of perceiving reality, quite different from the subject/object viewpoint that underlies Western thinking and language. The first proposition of MoQ is that everything is value, and that the primary division is between dynamic value and static value, not between subjects and objects. The undifferentiated, undefined, pre-existing source of all things is referred to as Dynamic Quality, but in this undifferentiated "ocean" there has formed, over time, sets of stable "wave patterns" of which the first is the material universe itself. The MoQ recognizes four such discrete sets of static value patterns (other terms are: 'levels', 'dimensions' and 'areas'). They are, in rising order of good: Inorganic, Biological, Social, and Intellectual. Each of these levels offers freedom from the constraints of the lower parent level, but each is also dependent on that parent level for its existence.
There are five types of struggle between different levels of static Quality. The definition of the area of struggle in which an entity functions may have more to say about its reality than any of its objective qualities. The five areas are: chaotic-inorganic, inorganic-biological, biological-social, social-intellectual, and static-dynamic. As Pirsig says,