From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 10:44:15 BST
Mark (MSH) and Mark Maxwell.
MSH, I responded in agreement to Platt's inferred point (not the facts
about Cuba's arrangements - which I doubt I know any less than he
does) This is rhetoric responding to rhetoric. Don't panic.
Mark, You said
I'm happy to contemplate random influences in
evolution, at least at the Organic level.
Levees are not random mutations; they are static
strategies developed by higher evolutionary levels
I say, actually Mark I do support honest, well considered, "creative
destruction" in principle, but that's another issue (Remember - let's
break some eggs). All I would point out here is not to assume that
higher level human (social & intellectual) developments are
necessarily well planned for positive ends. More cock-up than
conspiracy (rational planning) in my experience - Many a slip, twixt
... Disaster snatched from the jaws of victory. Look at language.
The state of the Levee's in New Orleans the day of Katrina were as a
result of cumulative cock-up over decades, not as they were "planned"
to be for that event (political misrepresentation and
misunderstanding of priorities I'd guess - they didn't have the MoQ to
help with their decision making.).
Ian
On 9/6/05, Case <Case@ispots.com> wrote:
> > msh:
> > Or, why not take a stab at responding to Case's recent comparison of
> > the New Deal government with today's government. Or give us your
> > opinion of Michael Parenti's essay recently posted in this thread. Or
> > better yet, why not provide some sources for your "statistics"
> > regarding the citizens of New Orleans, rather than just stating them
> > emphatically, a la Limbaugh, as if that is enough to make them
> > accurate.
> [Case retorts]
> For the record my remark was a snide comment and personal insult
> emanating from the Left? Which the exception of his work in linguistics I
> think Choamsky is a genius.
>
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