Hi Marco:
You wrote:
> Actually I do believe that usually a spontaneous cooperation is a good
> way to evolve. As long as cooperation is spontaneous, it has huge
> dynamic capabilities. I'm translating the essay "Zen and the art of
> revolution" for the Italian forum, and I think that the examples of
> revolution (American, French, Russian, Cuban... ) are all examples of
> spontaneous cooperation of diverse persons (a people) in order to reach
> a better social and intellectual condition. The dynamic process of
> those revolutions lasts as long as the participation is spontaneous.
Unfortunately in the case of the Russian and Cuban revolutions the
spontaniety was quickly snuffed out. And sometimes spontaneous
cooperation can lead to horrible results, like a lynch mob. Thomas
Carlyle warned of the negative side of spontaneous cooperatioin when
he wrote one of my favorite aphorisms: "I do not believe in the
collective wisdom of individual ignorance." So your qualification of
"usually a good way" is well taken.
Platt
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