Dear Platt,
It's funny that you think I'm defending something like a European Socialism.
Maybe you have not seen that we are on another thread, right now. ICBW, but I
thought I was defending the MOQ. You quote against me the 24th chapter, and you
say that I'm talking about a "soup of sentiments"... not at all, I was having
in my mind just that chapter. I don't need to quote something else. I was having
in my mind the same human rights RMP talks about.... the human rights he puts
clearly in the Intellect/Society struggle. I was simply adherent to the subject
of this thread: intellect over society is a thread about human rights.
I'm trying to understand what's wrong. We both are using the same words each
against the other...
You write:
> What I do see, however, is the human right to be free from social
> (government) control of intellectual expression, intellect being a higher
> level of morality than society. In other words, society should not stand
> in the way of individual's free exercise of his reason which he must use
> to live and pursue happiness. Nor should any individual be penalized
> for the irrational decisions of another.
Eureka! You seem to say that the market is not a social pattern! You say it is
immoral for a government to control an intellectual expression. I say that ALSO
for the market it is immoral. But you even don't see the market. You seem to
hold the idea that the market is freedom itself. That every rule about the
market is immoral. Is it so?
Everything gets more clear. That's why you take money as the only parameter.
Actually, I say "equal opportunities" and you read "equal salary"; I say
"colonialism" and you read that I suggest that the natives should appropriate
the property of another. I say it is a sort of MOQ blasphemy to state that
money can measure art, and you don't answer. Maybe you even don't understand
what I've really asked for: we are talking two different languages. I could also
write my posts in the dialect of my town.
And that's why you go on blaming me of communism, when I spend my words for the
defense of the individual from the strong market influence. You don't see the
need of any defense. Religious fervor.... Siberia, European socialism: you go
on putting into my mouth things I've never mentioned.
Is it so, Platt? Isn't market a social pattern in your MOQ? Is the market
freedom itself? Is any weak criticism to the market a terrific sign of
Stalinism?
Tombola!
Marco
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