Hi Ray,
Time is still short for me at present, but on the matter of our difference
of opinion (excerpted below) on whether complexity can be simmered down to
simple principles (in the arts, sciences, human behaviour, what have you),
I'd thoroughly recommend Robert Axelrod's "The Complexity of
Keith Hudson wrote:
[snip]
As you've mentioned Gutenberg's printing press yourself, let me confine
myself to this. The notion that "the Chinese are able to print" may well
have been around in Gutenberg's day and perhaps exercised a few minds in a
vague way, but the Chinese technology in which
- Original Message -
From: "Keith Hudson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Magic Circ Op Rep Ens" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: Another way
Hi Ray,
Gosh! How can I possibly reply in any sort of adequate
Tom Walker wrote:
Good masturbation beats bad intercourse any day, IMHO. ;-)
[snip]
Especially in the present Age of AIDS.
But let's dig down to at least one of the tap roots of this
stuff: Sexual repression or young persons is not the only
possible way to achieve "civilization", although
Hi Ed,
At 14:36 13/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Keith and Ray:
Here's another example of my not knowing what culture is.
I'm also not sure what culture is. It's used as a slogan by all sorts --
not only by the intellengtsia who want pubic funding of their favourite
activities, but also by the
Hi Ray,
At 10:58 12/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
Gee Keith,
I wrote a post about economics and business and you wrote one about
aesthetics.
That is alright but you didn't answer a single thing that I said. Why not?
Were you making a parallel?I even gave references in the economic
literature.
Hi Keith and Ray:
Here's another example of my not knowing what culture is.
I always thought that culture was what we as a society value, and the
expression thereof, materially, spiritually and aesthetically. That would
include both inherited and aquired values.
Coming (oops) back to the self
e for the
WHOLE society. But the issue is now and has always been the impracticality
of Utilitarian theories and their inability to deal with all of the elements
that make a society human. Value is not use. It is much more than that.
Ray Evans Harrell
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Hi All:
I enjoy reading the exchanges between Ray and Keith. I don't claim to
comprehend all of it but, having read Allan Bloom's "Closing of the
American Mind" I wonder of what I took to be his contention that there is
an absence of passion in America, and elsewhere.
If I understand him
Ed Goertzen asked,
Do we not agree that masturbation is an obsession with self that
leads to moral degradation?
In reference to *amour propre* and Smith's invisible hand?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
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