I also recommend www.sahtouris.com to you Platt, for this debate is at the heart of her presentation.
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Platt Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >From Merriam-Webster: "collectivism -- 1 : a political or economic theory > advocating collective control especially over production and distribution; > also : a system marked by such control" > > In other words, communism/socialism, opposed to individual rights, also > condemned by Pirsig for blocking DQ. . > > She says very plainly, that cells in a body would not be successful at what they do if they did not server their own self interest! But from this self interest, they serve the whole in a dance of negotiation which is productive of the bigger picture and life itself. She says the soviet system failed to encourage this self interest of their cells, and thus collapsed; and the west fails to encourage the communal interest and is headed for collapse. You need both for life. A very Roycean polemic. I recommend her highly. John Carl, done with lunch and back to work (and listening to my radio) 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/md/archives.html
