Ray,
Thanks for your latest. Please forgive me if I don't reply in detail -- I
think we both know where we stand on a number of issues and we're unlikely
to persuade each other.
But you mention something at the end which has intrigued me enormously for
some years -- though I suspect that I will
May I for once be openly cynical?
Christoph Reuss wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Keith Hudson wrote:
For better or for worse, we recreate society much as it was before whenever
we have passed through technological/economic change. OK, we might well
lose picturesque customs and metaphors
Christoph,
At 02:05 28/07/99 +0200, you wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Keith Hudson wrote:
For better or for worse, we recreate society much as it was before whenever
we have passed through technological/economic change. OK, we might well
lose picturesque customs and metaphors (such as 7 or 70
Hi Brad,
Thanks for your post. I'm working on my return but it
will be a little while. As for monoculture I would say that
it is not so much that they had corn soup but that the
culture of McDonald's may or may not be close to the
Japanese and the issue is whether the Japanese can
absorb
REH said:
I have questions. Is this duality virus related to the issue of
wave and particle in Quantum Mechanics?
I don't think so. Duality is the basis of logic. Given any
particular thing, real or abstract, absolutely everything else in the
universe (or in the universe of discourse)
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Keith Hudson wrote:
To this extent there is a global culture. Nevertheless,
cultural diversity may be growing. Perhaps we are looking in the wrong
places for it. For the active, curious, intelligent 30% of the population
there have never been as many different sorts of
Too bad they can't assess liability for lost families,
intellectual capital, land use ideas etc. It seems to
me that you are using the rules of a divorce without
separating.
Better you start with the ideas of justice
and the rule of law as defined by both groups. The
truth is that one group
Christoph,
I'm glad you've replied to this because I think I'd rather brushed you off
regarding how one would classify Switzerland. Since I wrote last I'm now
unsure as to whether Switzerland could be regarded as a nation-state in the
fullest meaning of the term. What characterises a
