Hi Ian, others Is not politics the art of stopping us using force to settle our disputes and consequently dissolving the gains of the social and intellectual levels.
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "ian glendinning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Politics and Change > I'm guessing those words are your starting attempt HZ ? > > Two initial observations ... > > To me, Politics is the pragmatic application of policy. > > So yes, it's a social activity, but there is no reason why the > policies themselves should not be based on intellectual activity. > > So, I find your focus on maintaining or creating merely static > patterns unnecessarily limiting. No reason why policy should not > enable, encourage, facilitate dynamic quality too. Of course the > history of partisan politics has tended to preserve ideological > patterns, but history is only a guide to the future, not some hard > prediction or constraint ? > > Ian > > On 8/13/07, Hamza Zeytinoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If anybody is interested, I would like to get your ideas on an attempt to >> re-define politics (in MOQ terms); >> >> "Politics is social activity with the goal to enable or to prevent the >> movement of static value from one group to another (creating change or >> maintaining no change)." >> >> Best regards >> HZ >> >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.15/949 - Release Date: >> 12/08/2007 >> 11:03 >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
