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I just reread this. Its
great! Thanks Brad
REH
Speaking of complexity.............
If I read this aright, I see
a parable of
the social/economic world:
Left to their own devices,
persons devolute (a
cloised system follows the 2nd law of
thermodynamics).
With a good benefactor (AKA "sun"), persons
can
elaborate ever higher cultural self-formations.
If one does not like
the phrase "Leisure is the
basis of culture", perhaps the following
will
be more agreeable: "Being underwritten
by a good benefactor (the
Sun, e.g.) provides the
conditions of leisure (relief from
impingement
by "the second law")
under which culture (more highly organized
structures)
can arise.
"Paying your dues" just means that somehow
you
managed not to succumb to the organized forces of social
entropy
you aspired to become a part of. There
is a wheel of karma, and
it's not "cosmic" except
in the [highly significant!] sense that
out
ethno-customs structure our whole world of life
(AKA
cosmos).
\brad mccormick
Keith Hudson, 6 Upper
Camden Place, Bath, England
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