From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 01:15:52 GMT
Rudy;
Howdy and thanks for all the good questions. I'll take a crack at one of
them.
Rudy said:
I suppose that my biggest question is, where does all
this bottom out? Just how would you implement all of
this? How would you propose to teach the world to
think in MOQ terms and abandon SOM? Wouldn't you have
to change the nature of education from kindegarten to
grad school? Wouldn't every textbook need to be
translated and reprinted? Wouldn't our day-to-day
language have to change? Wouldn't our governments...
DMB says:
I think its use is as a tool for explaining things. If that leads to reforms
in education or government that's just gravy. But its main function is to
serve as a coherent way to organize facts about the world. A metaphysical
system can't be implemented like a social program or a business plan, but as
an explanatory tool.
It only tries to describe the world in a better way, not remake the world
itself.
And getting rid of SOM in favor of the MOQ isn't as weird as it seems. He
gladly admits that his MOQ is based on "the oldest idea known to man". His
MOQ describes the same mystical reality that has been described many times
and in many ways. He says it like a liberal intellectual American
midwesterner on a boat, so its one of my favorites, but the MOQ is only one
description of this view.
Thanks,
dmb
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