Dear David,
Just to say that I very much agree with your 27/1 18:44 -0700
post and hope that it indeed starts a good thread.
The 3rd level is one of my main interests on this list, too
(together with religion and other ways to 'jump/point to the
moon' of DQ). I hope you will recognize that I am writing about
exactly the same in a lot of my previous and future posts, even
if my style of writing is very different from yours.
The most important element in your post (for me) was the
association of unconscious/social and conscious/intellectual.
My main additions would be
1) to stress that 'culture' is also material culture: how to do
things (important 'agents of cutting edge evolution' in the
pre-intellectual period that you fail to mention were artisans!)
and
2) to distinguish the social level (also) from the intellectual
level by their distinctive ways of reproducing their patterns of
value: (unconsciously) copying behavior (that yields status) and
(consciously) copying motives for action/choices (producing the
experience of being true to one's self or some ideal or some
other 'reality').
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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