[Platt] Well, why don't you look back through history and provide some evidence? Money economies have been around since man left the caves.
[Arlo had said] Now, _social patterns_ in the larger sense, I'd agree, _are_ a prerequisite for the emergence of intellectual patterns. But "capitalism" is only one of many possible social patterns, which has nothing to do with the quality of intellect that follows. [Platt] Where do you see the word "capitalism" in my statement? And where did you get the idea that philosophy automatically says anything about the "quality of intellect?" [Arlo] You are attempting to conflate two things that are unrelated. As you can see above, I specifically state that "social patterns" are indeed a prerequisite to "intellectual patterns" (that basic MOQ). But "money" is only one feature of social patterns. Saying "money" is a prerequisite to intellect is like saying "roads" or "family" is a prerequisite to intellect. They are certainly often _part_ of the prerequisite, but any individual variance is not itself what's responsible. Unless you want to rewrite the MOQ to be "inorganic-biological-money-intellectual". [Platt] to denigrate Platt because his ideas are considered dangerous to the left's agenda. Bore, bore, bore. [Arlo] Boy, you nailed it. Your ideas are so dangerous to my agenda, my anti-freedom, aid the terrorists, want American soldiers to die agenda. Why were it not for noble, honest, freedom-loving conservatives like yourself, we would have already enslaved the world. Damn you! 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/
