Quoting Christoffer Ivarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> 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.
It isn't an answer. What was the question? It isn't an analysis. What's to analyze? > A is B. And B is Blue. > > congratz Platt. you win the interwebz What's that mean? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
