[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[Magnus Berg]

Hi Platt

pholden at davtv.com wrote:
> Believing that the free market social pattern is better than the socialist
> social pattern has nothing to do with intellectual values that I can see.
> One need only cite the intellectual vitality of the U.S. vs. socialist
> countries to squash the idea that free markets "decapitate" intellectual values.

The free market per se *does* decapitate intellectual value because of 
its sole goal of generating more money. Any intellectual "vitality" is 
merely a bi-effect or promoted by other parts of the society, such as 
the government.

> That "communist societies we've seen on earth need some work" has to be the
> understatement of century. But, I welcome your devil advocate role. It gives
> me a chance to extol the virtues of individual freedom. 

But that only takes you back to where we started.

With "individual freedom", you mean the freedom of the 4 level person, 
right? And that sounds all moral and nice.

But when you use that "freedom" to advocate a loosely tied society, 
you're actually promoting a return to a non-society.

And this is possible because humans shows the rather peculiar aspect of 
the MoQ, that not just biological things can be a part of a society, but 
also intellectual beings. So, we have 4-level intellectual persons 
getting together to form societies for some reason, and that reason can 
hardly be to just throw that away and grow apart again, which you seem 
to be promoting.

	Magnus