[MD] Stuck on a Torn Slot

[Horse]

Hi Craig
As far as I'm aware bees and prairie dogs don't employ architects, 
obtain building permission, employ bricklayers, plumbers etc.
Building a house or the construction of a housing estate here in the UK 
involves all of this and is part of a social pattern.

Horse

On 04/12/2010 00:30, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:
> [Horse}
>> The building of a house or group of houses would be a social pattern, as
> per human social behaviour to stay
>   >  warm and protected - the building of
> nests, as per avian behaviour is to provide a place to lay eggs etc.
>
>
>
> Nope.  IMHO this misses Pirsig's insight into the social level.
> Just as a beehive or network of prairie dog burrows is not a social level pattern, building a house or group of houses is not a social pattern, even if done in co-operation with other humans.
> Nor is human behaviour to stay warm and protected social, rather than biological.
> Only the building of a social institution should count as social, e.g., ownership laws, legal liability, etc.
> Craig
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