>From reading Arthur Koestler I discovered that evolution (at least in the
biological sense) does often go very wrong.
Incorporating Robert M. Pirsig's 'Evolutionary morality' we find that
society is the result of evolution and that there is no reason to believe
that society itself has evolved without some kind of built in internal
error.
The term 'cultural immune system' does not only apply to intellectual fields
of study, but to all forms of evolution.
As such, I believe that we can identify that society has an inherent
'cultural immune system' to the intellect.
Society does not understand the intellect, it doesn't speak the same
language. Thus, we have this kind of 'deafness' that society has toward the
intellect which can be witnessed and identified throughout a large portion
of mankind's history.
Terrorism, on the other hand, is a means of direct communication with a
society. That is because, I believe, terrorism is a direct result of this
cultural immune system to the intellect. As Zack De laRocca said 'Riot be
the rhyme of the unheard'.
As I write this they are trying to put together an international coalition
to try to put an end to terrorism. This I believe will be futile so long as
society maintains it's deafness.
Today many newspapers carried the headline 'It's War'.
But this is no war between nations. Nor is it really a war between
terrorists and America. Because societies and terrorists are secondary to
the values that create them, this is a conflict of value. Namely, Dynamic
and Static Value. What's at stake is the static cultural immune system or
deafness toward the intellect.
I don't condone these vicious attacks because of my respect for life but
there should be much care taken in how this situation is handled.
Jeremy
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