[MD] Neoconservatism

[Heather Perella]

Hey Platt, and Steve (I have questions for you at the
end),


     Steve said:  "Intellectual patterns are
maintained through copying
of rationales. We call our most stable intellectual
patterns "true" or "common sense." We judge
intellectual patterns based on consistency with other
high quality intellectual patterns and consistency
with experience. True and false only apply to the
intellectual level."

     Platt, this is more of what I'm saying,
concerning Steve's explanation above.  The collective
versus individual, freedom versus order, the values
debated as to whether they belong on one level or
another level.  As I said in the last post I sent,
maybe these values are on the intellectual level and
we are just debating not the level, but the values on
a level.  
     
     As Steve also explains:  "Society does not equal
the social level. Nor does it equal the values that
society perpetuates. The social level refers to a type
of pattern of value. I recognize this type of pattern
as those that are perpetuated through unconscious
copying of behavior.  Biological patterns are
maintained through DNA.  

     This comes close to maybe a better explanation
that separates the levels without debate, and the only
debate left would be the values within the level, for
now.  One question I have with Steve is 'unconscious
copying of behavior".  This would put dance on the
intellectual level.  What of copying of behavior that
is not truly copying, but is original?  Is that, at
first, intellectual behavior that could turn social
level?  What of realization?  We are copying
somebody's behavior,  and then realize we are doing
this?  At first I guess it is social level, then this
realization is intellectual level?

SA

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