[MD] grmbl

[Andre Broersen]

Platt to Andre:

'...S/O began to preserve social values and then took off
on purposes of its own, becoming the intellectual level (better named the
individual level because it because it opposes collectivist values.)

Andre:
Thanks for clarifying this Platt. I should have known better. I thought the intellectual level held values such as human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, of travel, trial by jury, habeas corpus, government by consent. And these are not 'collectivist values' then?

Could've fooled me. I think we not only talk past eachother, we're not talking at all.

John Locke, who framed his philosophy on the findings of Newton and Galilei, and whose philosophy underpins the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution divided man in two parts: Man has a material substance and a mental substance. The mental substance he called 'tabula rasa' or 'blank tablet'.

Hearing you...the pieces are beginning to fit together...I am beginning to understand what Locke means. .