[MD] the news, or lack of it...

[Marsha]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <squonkmuse at talktalk.net>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] the news, or lack of it...


>
> Squonk,?
> Okay, why don't you give me a good dose of the truth.?
> Marsha
>
> Hi Marsha,
> I think it is true to say that social patterns of behaviour do not value 
> truth, because truth is an intellectual pattern of value, and therefore 
> can not be shared by another level of moq evolution.
>
> Social patterns of behaviour are imitated while intellectual patterns are 
> abstracted.
>
> 1. Religious patterns of behaviour are imitated and therefore social.
> 2. Capitalist patterns of economic behaviour are imitated and therefore 
> social.
>
> The media in your culture is dominated by capitalist patterns of behaviour 
> and religious sentiment.
>
> 3. Celebrity is the dynamic motivating force of social organisation.
>
> Therefore, 1 and 2 are organised by 3.
>
> So, the media in your culture is dominated by celebrity.
> If it can be said that media is a primary mode of dissemination 'culture' 
> then as such, your culture does not value the intellectual pattern of 
> truth.
>
> A good dose of truth would therefore be: Your culture does not value 
> truth.
>
> squonk.


Hi Mark,

Need to step back a bit.  What is truth?

Marsha