RE: "Downturn, Deflation Haunt Japan, IMF Finds"

[Cordell . Arthur]

-From Brad McC

(snip,,,,,)
Example of the positive social
unconscious of permissions: In any competition, 
there is a winner and there are
losers.  Everybody "consciously" tries to
win.  But the spirit of
competition grows stronger no matter who wins or loses.
Only when nobody shows up for the competition because
they have decided they's rather live cooperatively instead,can
there be a possibility of stopping the spread of the
semiotic virus "competition".

    Language is a virus from outer space.
                     (--William S. Burroughs) 

+\brad mccormick

-- 
 From Cordell.....

This is really at the heart of many issues.  What if they had a war and no
one showed up.  Stopping the virus of competition, or fashion, or one more
iteration of this or that product line is only stopped by people somehow
finding something else to do with their lives.  It is very difficult to do
since as Brad shows even by showing up and saying " I really don't believe
in this.....", the virus continues.

To paraphrase Woody Allen who said most of life consists of just showing up,
maybe the most profound social change will take place when people don't show
up.

arthur