perfectly correct! That's the evolutionary view on how the diversity of perspectives is supposed to work, but it doesn't. The ideal product of democracy is decision making that reflects a whole understanding of things by integrating all points of view. Trouble develops when the points of view that believe in suppressing all others take over.
Take the case of when we, in our wisdom, determine that we need to interfere in another culture..., in Iraq, for example. The conversation about Iraq has been completely dominated by the 'do evil to evil' point of view, and the 'doctor with real sick patient' view just gets punched in the face over and over. The fact that there isn't anyone fighting in Iraq not defending their sacred honor should be the tip off, but isn't. Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:54 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] US intelligence agencies "discover" > blogs and wikis > > > Phil Henshaw wrote: > > > So long as people > > are primarily looking for the fault in other people's > points of view > > instead of the insight in other people's points of view > we'll get the > > mayhem we now have and justly deserve. > > Nature must have some good a > > reason for having all minds make up their own worlds, meanings and > > points of view. > Evolutionary advantage is one guess. Many individualized languages, > i.e. models of the world, having many individualized responses may > enable at least some people in a community to make it through severe > adversity intact. Similarly, the community can evolve > language to fit > the needs of its environment. For example, in this way democracies > beat theocracies when their leaders, who would very much like > to define > language and shape ideas for their own purposes, start > pushing too many > ideas that are dangerous to everyone in the group.. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
