From: SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 21:51:21 BST
I'd be very interested to hear anyone else's thoughts about distinguishing
intellectual and social patterns.
Thanks,
Steve
Hello Steve,
I only wish to mention that i am currently thinking about hospitals. A
hospital is an institution that helps care for biological patterns over many
generations. I suspect they initially emerged out of more primitive social patterns
which served the same caring function.
In the UK we have a National Health service, as they do in Cuba. It is an
established right in the UK that you be cared for by the NHS free of financial
status. In my view, this development within a western economic system is a most
precious and beautiful social pattern. How do you feel about this?
Of course, the NHS is also controlled to a degree by medical excellence, and
that involves a harmonising of Intellectual patterns (medical science) and the
social patterns of the NHS itself. Neither level relies upon one generation
for continuity - but may be influenced by Dynamic individuals over time. In
this sense, it may be helpful to view the patterns as an aesthetic flux. There
are no 'things.'
The Intellectual patterns of medical science say little about caring for
biological patterns - they can keep a biological husk 'alive' for many years after
much that contributed to the Quality of life has dissipated. And that is the
balancing act - using intellectual patterns to raise the Quality of society
without spiralling into misery and fear of death, as if death is unnatural.
I can only hope this helps?
squonk
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