DT, Good thoughts to ponder. Thanks for sharing them; risking the possible insults and breakfast indigestion is a brave act. But then metaphysics ain't for sissies.
Ideas can do nothing without social constituents. If an intellectual > construct appeals only to "have nots", ideologues, and intelligent self > interested thugs the consequences to be expected is exactly those the world > has experienced. > Consequences? What consequences? Let's see what Ti Jean has to say about the matter: "Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene--college being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice of coyote crying in the wilderness, searching the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization." Dharma Bums But since the origins of civilization are best left to experts and nova programs, maybe it would be a good idea to round up the Japhies (Gary Snyders) of the world, put em in re-education camps so they can properly respect the intellectual truth as taught at University, shoot the coyotes and live a safe, mediocre existence of tv watching and conformity untroubled at night by weird howlings in the distance. Digesting breakfast in peace. > The illusion that an intellectual, particularly a self appointed one, > somehow is immune from either bad ideas or evil actions is just plain > Pollyannaish. Ideas have no legs. They live and die by the constitutes they > attract. To presuppose that all intellectual ideas or concepts are good or > true or even if they are, that they will be applied for THE GOOD of all of > society is stuff of the tooth-fairy. Conceiving of the intellectual level > similarly is beyond fairyland. While the intellectual level maybe the most > dynamic it is also the most unstable. That does not automatically make it > the most good. > > The true test of any social pattern is how well and dynamically it protects, creates and nurtures it's biological constituents. The true test of any intellectual pattern is how well and dynamically it protects, creates and nurtures its social constituents. I've always felt Pragmatism to be an especially useful tool for this kind of analysis. Has anybody ever heard of it? > Twinkle, twinkle > > Dave > You can by a guiding star for me any day, big boy. John 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/
