Re: MD Disastrously naive indeed!

From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 15 2003 - 23:28:54 GMT

  • Next message: David Buchanan: "RE: MD Disastrously naive indeed!"

    Hi David,

    > DMB says:
    > I think Platt reads this quote too narrowing. He uses it to undermine his
    > political enemies, but this is a case of severe underemployment. Its like
    > using a rocket surgeon to wait on tables. It not only undermines the
    > presumptions of "commies", but of modernity itself. The quote is about one
    > of the central problems of SOM, namely its blindness to the power and
    > necessity of the social level.

    Can I ask what - in your view - constitutes the "necessity of the social
    level"? In particular, what social institutions, customs - rituals?? - etc
    etc are needed in order to preserve or develop a functioning intellectual
    level?

    Sam

    "I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my
    side, if you understand me... And there are some things, of course, whose
    side I'm altogether not on; I am against them altogether." -- Treebeard

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