Quoting Mike Craghead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Platt: > "Makes me wonder what the hippies had that is worth of resurrecting today." > > Mike: > ...Being open to change is a rare and valuable trait, as long as it's evolving > toward higher quality. Keeping the good static stuff and being willing to let > go > of other static stuff if it can be improved. That's quite worthy of > resurrection > if you ask me. > > I'm sure there were just as many immoral hippies as moral ones. But I assume > that > "moral crowd" refers to the "ideal" version of the lifestyle, which places > "real" > morality above all else. It's how you treat each other, it's generosity, > compassion, and a long list of other admirable ideals.
It's those list of ideals I wonder about. For example, is respecting one's privacy included? What about encouraging personal responsibility? > The problem shows up when too many static patterns are discarded in favor of > dynamic quality as change for it's own sake; if you give up too many static > patterns, suddenly you're in an all-around low-quality existence. You may be > free, > but you're also homeless; Kum Ba Yah. Complete agreement. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
