Chris said: ...There can be no question in anyone's mind that the consumer-culture that drives both individuals and entire nations to take the most rash actions in order to sustain it, is a system that is totally, and fundamentally a product of what the MOQ identifies as social level.
Platt replied with a quote: "A free market is a Dynamic institution. What people buy and what people sell, in other words what people value, can never be contained by any intellectual formula." dmb says: The trick is to see that both things are true. Money is the measure of social value AND the free market is a dynamic institution. Not only that, but it's also true that the MOQ says an intellectually guided society is more moral than one guided by social value. Platt reads "selectively" and that's the part he always leaves out. And that's exactly the problem with today's free market advocates; they think the market is the answer to everything and that means social values rule. In any case, it's wrong to imply that the MOQ supports these anti-intellectual attitudes. I really don't see how an honest reader could come anywhere near that conclusion. _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 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/
