Platt, On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> John, > > Social friction, opposition, tension? What do you have in mind? The Zuni > priests perhaps? I don't see how quantum theory, an example of intellectual > evolution, was affected by social friction. What would you call the existing intellectual paradigm before quantum theory? Let's just call it the OWV for the moment, "Old World View". Any time an intellectual theory evolves, it must overcome the social inertia of the OWV. This overcoming of static latching is primarily social because the society runs on the intellectual OWV's of the past. But someone, an individual perhaps, has a problem with the OWV. It doesn't match his experience, and thus he or she strives, with social friction opposing him/her, to get his/her ideas accepted. That means "socially accepted". Social Value is inherently the goal of all intellectual endeavor of individuals. > If anything, intellectual evolution > ignores static social patterns. Pirsig got his idea for the MOQ in response > to > DQ with no "social friction" involved that I know of. So, I don't grasp > your > meaning. > > Umm... I'd say getting locked up and loads of electricity delivered to you between the ears is a bit of social friction. Wouldn't you agree? We should all take care and avoid THAT much social friction! John (no stranger to social friction) 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
