[MD] Social Imposition ?

[ian glendinning]

Craig,

You make a good point which will need to modify my proposed statement.

The ease of believing is a different point, from the effort of
imposition. What we are effectively talking about then, is the nature
of "imposition" by a society or culture.

I guess what I'm claiming is that what passes for being "easy to
believe" is as a result of prior cultural conditioning - what is
common sense to a westerner, is not common sense to a buddhist. That
cultural conditioning is part part of society's imposition - a memetic
argument I'll admit, rather than the immediate application of force -
The Giant / Leviathan I guess.

So the wrong word in the definition is "effort" - perhaps "accumulated
resource" would be better.

Ian

On 12/17/06, craigerb at comcast.net <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
> [Ian]
> > "The quality of an intellectual pattern is inversely  proportional to
> > the level of effort (needed to be) imposed by society to maintain that
> > pattern, (but is proportional to how widespread it is believed by  free
> > thinkers)."
>
> IMHO the belief in absolute time & space is the effortless & widspread default, while every new generation needs to be convinced of the high quality, little understood Theory of Relativity.
> Craig
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