From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Fri Jul 29 2005 - 09:22:13 BST
Ian,
Spoken like a true Intellectual and Statesman. I couldn't agree more.
MarshaV
At 09:30 AM 7/29/2005 +0800, IAN wrote:
>I have quite a simple view on this Ant.
>
>Population (numbers) or other factors, humans have anormous capacity
>to influence the future of the "world" (mainly the planet, for now).
>Concern about that is the main reason anyone should take anything
>seriuously IMHO.
>
>Until a widely held common world view takes root in the population
>about the values of that future, I don't believe any amount or
>argument about which issue(s) we should address, how, and by what
>mechanisms, has any significant value - or much chance of any agreed
>decisions and implementable outcomes. Any significant changes in the
>course of the world (other than fiddling whilst Rome burns) will arise
>from war, famine, assorted cock-ups and disasters, natural and/or
>preventable.
>
>For that reason my efforts are firmly directed at promoting a world
>view (a philosophy or model for how it works and what matters) against
>which arguments / decisions about what to do are worth having. This
>will require evolution, but time is short, so it will have to be
>memetic evbolution, exploiting mass communications networks (the
>church of the interactive network), and every rhetorical trick in the
>book to spread the word. About three human generations I reckon, to
>reduce old physics, old logic and old politics to history.
>
>This is the reason I believe a few dozen committed MoQ'ers, who hold
>in their hands a valuable model for values in a future world, should
>stop debating todays tired old politics and wars (except as
>interesting case-studies), and concentrate their efforts on setting
>the standard of decision making values for a future and an evolving
>MoQ.
>
>I thank you.
>
>Ian
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