---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:05:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [psychohistory] The Kidnap of Mass Mind The Kidnap of Mass Mind - Fundamentalism, Spartanism and the Games Subcultures Play http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/glob/2969/1.html Here are the implications of a neural net simulation carried out at Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan. If citizens combine civility's self-restraint with social freedom, the neural net in which they're twined spills forth solutions of the finest kind - those which produce a host of winning strategies. If citizens rage out of control when left alone but are held in check by a police state, the neural net goes blank. All power seeps into the hands of a central authority. This maximum leader, implies the research, can be a previous fringe figure and an utter incompetent. What's worse, complexity pioneer Stuart Kauffman has shown with yet another mathematical model how a "Stalinist" chief and his morality enforcers can give the collective brainwork a lobotomy. The Kanagawa simulation implies that Fundamentalist strategies of beating up on others for their sins rather than controlling one's self drags us all toward authoritarian ferocity. The trick is to reassert the right to self-restraint and to the definition of one's own boundaries of behavior and privacy, boundaries which include that consideration toward those who disagree with us which we call civility. ===== If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. -- Winston Churchill "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." Anne Lamott __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/VjIolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-~> to unsubscribe from this group, send a blank message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
