In a message dated 7/13/01 1:19:02 PM GMT Daylight Time,
stephen_l_miller@hotmail.com writes:
<< Subj: Re: MD A few observations
Date: 7/13/01 1:19:02 PM GMT Daylight Time
From: stephen_l_miller@hotmail.com (Stephen Miller)
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> The intellectual level is the level at which the myth of 'i' is seen for
what
> it is.
> At this level, the myth is exploded.
> 'I' myth is most valuable at the social level; where cultural values may
be
> transmitted.
> A culture without the 'i' myth would be more like an ant colony?
>
>
> ~S G~
> >>
I'd say just the opposite. The fact that the I myth has been created and
spread so widely shows that people have an inherant desire to be
individuals, but the myth does so by setting the path to individualism
completely inside of society. It's after people's desire for individualism
has been fulfilled by the "myth" that they begin to act like an ant colony.
Yet another anti-social rambling by-
Stephen
>>
Hi Stephen,
You have an interesting point.
However, the 'desire' for individualism appears to be socially transmitted?
In a society that did not value individualism, individualism may be
suppressed?
Animals form social colonies.
It appears to go against this trend for humans to wish to be different from
each other.
Perhaps people wish to be different in order for social values to evolve
between the 'nodes' of transmission which are you and 'i.'
If this is the case, then social values produce individualism and not the
other way around.
All the best,
Squonk.
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