[MD] Politics

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Christoffer Ivarsson <IvarssonChristoffer at hotmail.com>:



> > Ron:
> > A relative degree of Harmony between society and it's citizenry.
> > Progressing
> > Toward growth and mutual understanding.
> 
> 
> Yes, I agree. I think the most important thing is to get poverty and 
> conflicts under control SO THAT education and a grand scale improvement of 
> understanding can be created (why I'd call myself a socialist) that is, I 
> believe that mankind can progress and develop new ways of understanding - 
> the MOQ can be a part of that - but to do this, social value patterns and 
> biological ones should be kept well controlled by intellectual ones (in my 
> book that would be "rationality"). As it is today, what I would call social 
> level thinking is controlling much of politics, and thus the whole world.

Congratulations, Chris. You call yourself a socialist. Would that
other contributors who believe as you do had the courage to do likewise.
I wonder, however, how a socialist avoids social level thinking. Just asking. 

Regards,
Platt
 

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