Hi David, De-evolution .... yes indeed that is the fear / risk / issue. At the socio-intelectual-cultural level in this age of mass communication - the global village, it is so easy for bad ideas to evolve. Hence "memetics" ...
Strangely, I was revisiting "Devo" recently .... .... but that's probably another story Jocko Homo. Ian On 2/2/08, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian > > We all recognise the > > extreme - authoritarian vs free-reasoning ends of the spectrum - but > > in the vast middle ground of real life what passes for intellectual > > reasoning is socially conditioned / co-evolved / entangled. > > > Seems very important to me that we see this spectrum and > how we move along it. I'd add social/conditioned/uncritical/ > unified/unquestioning/mythic/unchanging through to diverse/changing/ > individualistic/more free/intellectual/reasoning and you can add alot more. > I think one of the things the MOQ helps us with is seeing that whilst the > 4th level brings new freedoms and possibilities it brings new challenges > too and cannot evolve by destroying the 3rd level. The social and > biological levels need to be kept in a healthy state that works > and not simply abandoned and left to rot as some of the extreme > cheer leaders of modernity seem to think is inevitable. More evolution > less revolution perhaps, but much more evolution than we seem to > have currently, currently it looks a bit like de-evolving. > > regards > David M > > > 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/
