[DMB] I see what you mean. How about this; things as advanced as the precessional calculations would be something like the intellectual level as it existed within the womb of the social body, a growing potential that would soon emerge as a separate, distinguishable being. Then the Axial age is the time when this potential is actually born and achieves something like independence in Ancient Greece. Dominance, as Pirsig draws the line, didn't come until the post-WWI period, less than a century ago.
[Arlo] This sounds good to me. And you're right, I didn't mean to suggest that since Ancient Greece intellectual patterns have dominated. I like "Axial age", I was thinking earlier something like "critical mass". Maybe something like that was reached with the social level with the advent of a stable agriculture or perhaps codified law; where prior social units were more or less still under the rule of "might" and biological patterns more or less dominated social ones. This is, by the way, a reason I like the border regions of the levels much more than the middle. Much more interesting. :-) 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
