[MD] Social Imposition ?

[ian glendinning]

Ha, David,
Dontcha just love typo's ?
It's always those incidental words like "not" :-)

You had me worried for a minute.

Ian

On 1/2/07, David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian
>
> I meant:
>
> >> Thing is with society: the key thing is what
> >> sort of society we want to make, so it is about the
> >> possible rather than the necessary or even probable.
>
> So we need to understand the possible, and which of
> our possibilities we want to help emerge into the actual
>
> David M
>
> >>
> >
> > Sorry David but I'm not sure I agree. Surely in getting better
> > understanding of probablistic nature (I've re-read Prigogine BTW) we
> > do need to be thinking about the sort of society "we want to make" too
> > ?
> >
> > Maybe not directly controlled or socially engineered to specific ends,
> > but surely the point is to establish the optimum conditions (in
> > near-future society and culture) to optimise longer term futures of
> > society too ? By establishing optimum (highest quality) methods of
> > education and governance and the like.
> >
> > You're not suggesting that we're striving for better understanding of
> > the world in order to do nothing are you ? To fiddle whilst Rome
> > burns.
> >
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