Andre, Chris, Platt, Platt says "Dream on Andre"
Ian says "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. " (T E Lawrence / Faisal ibn Saud) Or if you prefer "Such dreams that stuff is made of .".... (Thomas Disch / David Moser, after the bard.) Pirsig, after Hobbes, and Rawls since, make it clear that naivite in execution can be a disaster, but dreams are essential to reality Ian On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Platt Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Andre] >> Imagine all patterns of value the way they are at the moment but now >> without >> money as a social benefit. What will be different? There is no financial >> incentive/ necessity to do anything...not even financial consequences >> attached to not doing anything. >> Anything and everything is all of a sudden possible for many people. >> The question "Why" am I doing what I am doing becomes important. ( along >> the >> lines of the fictitional character in ZMM: our early school drop-out, >> who >> works him/herself up from unskilled to semi-skilled to skilled to perhaps >> an >> academic career). >> Quite a number of people will continue doing what they are doing because >> they like it. They like their work because through it they can express >> themselves. Other people will now have acces to goods and services >> previously inaccessable because they are not quite happy with what they >> are >> doing and would like to change (eg some study at Uni level which at the >> moment costs 3000 euros/ half year). They do this because they see and >> feel >> the necessity for this not only for themselves but also for "the greater >> good". >> People will be able to respond freely to their dharma and can now act on >> this. >> It will be a different and dynamic place to work, live and be born into. >> People will care for the environment, themselves and others because not >> money but the principle of rta will be the guiding torch. People will >> naturally want to improve themselves because it is good. > > Dream on, Andre."What the Metaphysics of Quality indicates is that the > twentieth-century intellectual faith in man's basic goodness as spontaneous > and natural is disastrously naive. The ideal of a harmonious society in > which everyone without coercion cooperates happily with everyone else for > the mutual good of all is a devastating fiction." (Lila, 24) > > 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/ > 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/
