Hi All, David Brooks, the NYTimes columnist, has written another beauty. Entitled "Harmony and the Dream" the article provides insight into the ongoing debate here about the individual vs. the collective, intellect vs. society. Brooks confirms the feeling I got while watching the opening ceremonies of the olympics -- a feeling of horror as thousands of human beings were forced to become mindless robots. Brooks' last line is particularly compelling. Summing up collectivism he says, "It's certainly a useful ideology for aspiring autocrats."
The column appears in today"s NYTimes at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12brooks.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx =1218542584-Bc6z1ynB7ux5Y4jScbQvlQ Platt 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/
