Dear Roger, Rog, Risky, Risque, Mirror Boy & co,
I'm very glad with your 6/4 19:49 -0500, especially that you find value in
my distinction between primary and secondary progress at all levels (and
with the 'hugs and smooches' of course, you really leave the best for the
last).
I prefer to delay building further on it until after you have thought 'about
it more ... to fully grasp its ramifications'. I don't want to risk second
thoughts on your part because of my elaborations.
Our program of questions which you agreed with until now (if I am
not -again- mistaken) was:
1. How to define the path of a society toward absolute quality (social
progress)?
1a. By what method should we define that path?
1b. What path follows from applying that method?
1bI. What is the best intellectual pattern of values with which to judge the
balance between stability and versatility of a social pattern of values?
1bII. How can that balance of a given social pattern of values be enhanced
(more than without our intellectual intervention)?
2. Is society making progress along that path?
3. How to assist people in other parts of the world to make progress along
that path?
3a. What change does that require in our patterns of values?
3b. Which types of global inequality between what entities should be reduced
to what extent and how to enhance the balance between stability and
versatility of the social pattern(s) of values that operate(s) on a global
scale?
Maybe you can have a try at formulating (partial) answers to these questions
which we both agree on? You are free to copy from what I have formulated
before, of course :-)
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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