Diana McPartlin (diana@asiantravel.com)
Wed, 8 Oct 1997 04:00:17 +0100
Hi Maggie,
I haven't got much time here, but, just a couple of things...
Hettinger wrote:
> About that coat.
>
> The substance of the coat is inorganic value.
>
> If it is a fur coat, the form of the material (the shape of that inorganic
> substance) is set by biological value. The inorganic patterns were mediated by
> biological patterns. The process of reproducing these new patterns is stored
> in the DNA of the raccoon who first wore the fur.
>
> The habit (pattern) of putting on a coat over the human body when chilly is
> social value. Whatever habits people had before they discovered putting on
> coats have been supplanted by a new pattern that resulted from DQ mediation.
> (This happened long enough ago that it seems ok to assume that the intellectual
> level had not formed.) That DQ insight has been stored in the shared custom of
> humans. The reproduction of this mediated social value (covering the body) is
> managed by a process that is different from learning algebra. It is a social
> process that is accomplished by imitation, not thought. The biological level
> has been mediated as well (just ask the raccoon). The process of the
> reproduction of fur pieces for coat material has been stored in human biological
> patterns as well, as the maintainence of this process has become linked to the
> biological welfare (paycheck = food) of the trapper, merchant, salesman, and
> banker (thus, of course, creating and affecting other social patterns).
How about the biological welfare of the guy that's wearing it?
> The knowledge of varieties of ways to sew a coat, the many different
> intellectual patterns that mediate the social patterns of the coat industry, are
> all intellectual patterns. These patterns were mediated by dynamic Quality,
> and that DQ is stored as static intellectual patterns that are available to be
> shared among people, ONLY if they can be stored in some lower-level pattern for
> transmission and reproduction. The chain of mediation continues downward from
> there, to the point where the inorganic patterns that make up the coat may be
> something totally different (ie. petroleum-based).
And, fur coats in certain circles are an indicator of high social status, would you
consider this to be a social pattern of value?
Diana
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