Re: MD MOQ and The Moral Evolution of Society.

From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sun May 30 2004 - 21:58:12 BST

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    Dear Mark H, David M, Platt, Wim, everyone,

    David M: Values: Well I think we need to place all our
    patterns/organisations/activity in the context
    of evolution and freedom, and then ask
    what is good SQ patterns on each of the levels with the
    aim of supporting the higher levels. EG I would
    suggest that our current social org for education gives
    very poor support to genuine intellectual values.

    Mark 30-5-04: Exactly. Education is one of the pillars. And i feel education
    should be of values. It can be demonstrated that values are central to all
    experience, so why are they not being taught?
    This is only going to happen when educators are free to dislocate themselves
    from the increasingly static patterns of 21st century socio-economic
    servitude? Teachers don't teach anymore, they condition economic facilitators.

    Economic structures are a problem. In fact, structure is the problem. There
    is little point in changing structure if the nature of structure is not itself
    modified. Anything less is just so much pissing in the wind.
    Celebrity status is tied into socio-economic structuring, so both these
    issues must be addressed simultaneously. I think values can find a point of entry
    here, because it is clear there is a severe discrepancy between the value of a
    leader as reflected in economic reward, and the value of those who actually
    produce art. (I am referring to all manufacture as art.)

    Society is an art also, if viewed from an expanded and appropriate
    understanding of what art is in MOQ terms. Therefore, if manufacture of art, and society
    as art can be harmonised as a value centred unitary activity, people may
    begin to see the Quality of such a shift in value emphasis in the particular lives
    they lead?
    If not, greed will continue to prevail.

    All the best,
    Mark M

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