[MD] Politics

[ian glendinning]

DMB said ...
"I think human rights and moral reasonableness are mighty fine in and
of themselves, but we can also see that they are instrumental in
serving the MOQ's larger goal, namely the ongoing evolution of
intellect, which is the highest evolution of life."

Hear, hear.

So I would say, the key thing then when it comes to politics - in the
broad governance sense - is their "instrumentality" - enabling,
nurturing, ecouraging, maintaining that self-fulfilling loop and
preventing, discouraging things that block or prevert it.

Ian

On 2/21/08, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> 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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