>> Platt: >> > I think the rights spawned during enlightenment and the American >> > revolution >> > were rooted in a historical moment when meta-intellect, which also >> > spawned >> > the >> > MOQ, burst through the darkness into the light of day. It's moment in >> > the >> > sun >> > was all too brief, to be smothered by the SOM scientific mind-blanket. >> >> >> Fact square: The ideas that the break away colonists of the USA based >> their >> nation on was of course a product of the enlightenment. More accurately >> the >> constitution is a direct implementation of Montesquieu 's "De l'esprit >> des >> lois" from 1748 - something that has in practice not been updated since. >> Now, the ideas of Montesquieu was indeed an expression of a time when new >> ideas flourished - ideas of how to govern a state was constructed with >> the >> utmost vigour and in a true spirit of experiment. On the writing table >> that >> is. Montesquieu also proposed that people should be governed differently >> according to the climate, and ideas of radical redistribution governments >> and anarchy-like government flourished and were apprised alike - it was >> in >> the spirit of experiment. On the writing table. This said - this wasn't >> as >> Platt implies a time when freedom ideas were at their peak - it was a >> time >> when ALL KINDS of (crazy) ideas were at their peak. The ideas were so >> unbalanced and out there because they were new, revolutionary, and the >> absolutistic government of the time that was the only thing anybody knew >> of >> made it possible to build all kinds of thought models - because they had >> never been implemented, so there was nothing to judge it against. > > You left out a few people like John Locke, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and > Thomas Jefferson. As for being on the "writing table," the U.S. > Declaration > of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (referred to by > Pirsig) > were all inscribed on the writing table -- to the enduring thanks from all > who > place the highest value on liberty, even higher than life itself. > > Regards, > Platt
What you just wrote = nothing. It isn't an answer, and it isn't an analysis. it is repeating indoctrination. Perhaps that's your only intent. A is B. And B is Blue. congratz Platt. you win the interwebz 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/
