Quoting Heather Perella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > An individualist program sounds like 'My way or > the highway'. Platt, do you push people away? Do you > push everything away? When we have all these 'My Way > or the Highway' individuals walking around, is that > the stereotypical 'Wild, Wild, West'? Can pure, breed > individuals dialogue and compromise? Yet, what is the > value of a compromise, which in definition involves > not any one individual, but a third value called > compromise. In a compromise, individual(s) are not > remaining, but a society with an idea, the idea called > a compromise, and what is this compromise, this > intellectual idea evolved from this society (two or > more people), oh... maybe... love, a family, a tribe, > a city, a nation-state, exploding with ideas formed of > this compromise, and then, maybe, just maybe, this > idea of humanity with one earth, one sky, one moon, > and one sun... hmmm... > > is this too smooshy...
Each pursuing her own interests in a marketplace of ideas, jobs, products and services without resorting to biological level physical force is the ideal of freedom to pursue DQ that Pirsig champions as the road to better things. "Compromise" is such a system is called "bargaining" with each trader benefiting from the free exchange. Have a nice day. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
