[MD] The MoQ.org STRANGLES Creativity

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

> Politics have been around for a long, long, long
> time Platt.  They haven't changed much over the years.
>  A culture might think that they are dominant and the
> only ones worth the value of being called a
> civilization and they perceive other cultures as
> barbarians.  This idea of the Great Satan fits into
> this kind of old perception.  This is the view of many
> egotistical personnel within many cultures throughout
> time.  China (Mongols were barbarians), Romans (all
> others were barbarians), Greeks (all others were
> barbarians), India (Brahmins and the caste system were
> the best), Germans (the pure race), United States
> (trade and follow a money system or else we blast you;
> that's how the navy started, the guns pointed in the
> Japanese harbor, a good Indian is a dead Indian,
> McDonald's must be there or else civilization hasn't
> yet reached them, etc...), Iroquois (you were either
> with them or an enemy to be killed by them), Islamic
> (Mohammad decided by the sword), etc... all had this
> archetypal personality that motivated and embodied
> their cultural quest at one time or another.

Lest this be interpreted to mean that there are no moral differences among
cultures past and present, I offer this reminder from Pirsig: "Cultures can be graded
and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an
absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the
dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one
that does not." 

Platt

  


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