Marsha has said it already Platt, Nothing wrong with a real free market, where players are not "forced" to compete by those who keep score, but can choose enlightened collaboration and co-creation amongst balanced interests - intellectuals included (but not exclusively of course). Like real Drawinian evolution.
God help us in any extreme case. Ian On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > At 09:58 AM 4/20/2009, you wrote: >> >> > Ultimately Marsha, yes trust. Reading intent into what people (even >> > scientists) say and do, supported by experience at the touch points we >> > do have access to, and by second hand trust (or authority) if that's >> > all we can get. Even with "direct" experience we need to beware >> > illusions and psychological "tricks". >> > >> > A competitive self-interested market view of every situation sure >> > doesn't >> > help. >> > Ian >> >> I wonder what the alternative to the free market might be. A syndicate of >> SOM intellectuals perhaps? God help us. > > > Platt, > > The idea of the free market is a myth, a cruel joke. What we have now is a > 'let's pretend' free market; it is used to deflect every effort to have a > caring fair market. Maybe by opening up to an intelligent consideration of > the seventh-generation, something better can be developed. Your either/or > dichotomy is nonsense. > > > Marsha > > > > > > . > _____________ > > Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars......... > . > . > 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/
