Hi Alvaer, Steve's answer is the clue - fashion, 10 second attention spans, 15 minutes of fame, etc.
It's a memetic problem. The ideas which spread are not the good ones, just the ones that are easiest to spread. And the ones that are easiest to spread are those than can be communicated in the current (SOMist) paradigm. An idea which requires effort to change your world view is very hard to pass on to another, without a good deal of effort and trust on both sides. A simplistic metaphor which fits all existing prejudices - spreads like wildfire, to use your own metaphor. (Just look a wikileaks, etc.) Forget ideas, focus on actions. Ian What's so funny 'bout .... 2011/5/6 Leif Gunnar Alvær <[email protected]>: > Hi. > first post in a long long time.. > As far as I see it MOQ holds value as a metaphysics, or model of > reality. It is no more true than the models we use today to explain > reality, but they are also valuable. My question is simple, and it > might have been discussed earlier in this mailing list, why isnt the > MOQ popular? I mean, one PhD and a limited amount op people discussing > this, is that all? I might be missing something here, but I would > assume that the MOQ would eventually catch fire and spread. If it was > of poor quality it would probably die out, but it does provide us with > an alternative way of viewing the world, and all such alternatives > should atleast be investigated by the universities and educational > establisments (everyone who wants to evolve tbh). > > So what am I missing > > alvaer > 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 > 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
