Ron: Krimmel (sic), A well thought out and concise statement. It ties in to what I meant in the "levels/" thread.
" Instruments can distinguish one frequency of light from another or one temperature from another or one individual from another. But it is the observer or community of observers that determine the meaning of these distinctions." The community of observers being society or "culture". They share an agreed upon "illusion" or interpretation. We call this an intellectual pattern when this interpretation is used individually but the agreement itself is a social level pattern. [Krimel] Thanks Ron! One thought does occur to me here. That is that too often I get the feeling that the enculturation of children is viewed as some kind of evil coercion. Or that socialization is just the warping of the young into creatures very different somehow that what they would become if left to the purity of some natural process. What a load of crap. I would argue that the drive to reproduce is a biological function that we are genetically programmed to do. But part of wanting to create others like us means raising people "like us," that is, members of "our" society, members of "our family". We want to help our children to function in society. While we do employ coercion to accomplish this, we do it out of love and a desire to help our offspring find joy and fulfillment in life. 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/
