[MD] Levels?

[Ron Kulp]

[Krimel]
> Social organization or the mutual interdependence of individual
members of

> a species is an evolutionary strategy employed by many species in
nature. 
> From coral to ants and bees up through primates many organisms owe
their 
> survival to mutual support, division of labor and cooperative
behavior. 
> Pirsig chose to specifically exclude all of this and include only
humans
> at the social level.

[Craig]
Yes, that's why a primate "troop leader" is biological, but a calvary
troop
leader is social.

[Krimel]
Obviously I think that both are social and the only way to conclude
otherwise is to adopt a taxonomic system that ignores the structure,
function, origins and development of the matter under question.


Ron:
It's "cavalry" in military terms not calvary which is a hill.
Officers used to be chosen on social merit in Victorian times but 
anyone from society may be an officer today. They go to Academic
training at Military Academies. They are intellectual positions earned.

just a note.