Arlo, There is much you say that I can agree with.
You are entitled your interpretation, which I will not attack, while I am entitled to mine. Marsha On May 14, 2011, at 6:03 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > [Marsha] > Should patterns be seen as promoting "agency" when millions of people are > suffering from patterns of bondage? > > [Arlo] > And millions and millions are travel around the world, and don't have to worry > about hunger, and make use of libraries and bookstores, and go to schools to > learn things, and can jump on their motorcycles and drive across country, and > can check the weather on their computers, or engage in metaphysical dialogue > with people around the world. > > Structures provide us with greater and greater agency, our biological > structure > prevents us from flying (no wings), but our legs enable us to walk around. Our > social participating allows us greater "freedoms" than we enjoyed as > pre-social > primates wandering around the jungle. > > "The idea that, "man is born free but is everywhere in chains" was never true. > There are no chains more vicious than the chains of biological necessity into > which every child is born. Society exists primarily to free people from these > biological chains." (LILA) > > Are these structures also constraining? Of course. Is there a danger when > structure becomes so entrenched it can longer evolve? Of course. > > But I'll take the "freedoms" these structures enable any day over the really > imprisoning way things would be without them. > > "The cells Dynamically invented animals to preserve and improve their > situation. The animals Dynamically invented societies, and societies > Dynamically invented intellectual knowledge for the same reasons." (LILA) > ___ 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
