[MD] Social Level- Catholic Social Teaching

[skutvik at online.no]

Hello Stephen, pleased to meet you if we haven't spoken earlier.

I'm from the original Lila Squad times and am reeling from more 
than ten years of fighting for the MOQ, yet seeing it deteriorating 
every day and is why I just had a fleeting glance ate the Catholic 
page you referred to on 27 July: it's about as far from the MOQ's 
social LEVEL as possible.

> I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how one group of
> people (Catholics) look at social level values.  Is there any parallel
> to social values we usually discuss?  What are the overarching
> intellectual values/ideals driving these social teachings?

The real Q-social level's purpose was (still is) a dynamic revolt 
against biological value of merely eating and proliferating, thus 
social value was/is about checking this "jungle" existence and what 
fulfills this purpose is a greater reality that transcends biological 
life. Thus the proclaimed catholic human rights is about the least 
Q-social value there is, they are all about the individual's 
submission to the greater reality (religion most often, but can be 
called "the common cause"). 

However, because intellectual value is the same revolt regarding 
social value one of its its value aspects turns round human worth 
and rights ... and THIS is what has reformed the original "raw" 
social patterns to the present mellow "teachings" . The catholics 
may believe that the individual's preservation is their agenda, but 
the Semitic type religion are Q-social patterns and everything turns 
round existence beyond, their least concern is Q-intellectual 
welfare. 

I won't pull the whole cultural history, but Christendom is 
ambiguous with one leg in the Semitic, Q-social tradition the other 
in the modern, intellectual one, Catholicism representing the 
former, while Lutheranism represents the latter. Excuse my 
grumpy style, but I'm aghast of how this discussion has mangled 
the MOQ.

Bodvar "Bo" Skutvik             





Stephen
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