[MD] The Mythos-Logos issue.

[Joseph Maurer]

On 7/2/10 11:11 PM, "skutvik at online.no" <skutvik at online.no> wrote:

Hi Bo and all,
 
Your example of an intellectual latch not holding is intriguing!  I do not
see that evolution is under the control of an individual.  When hysteria or
patriotism necessarily overpowers an intellectual formation I don¹t view
that as failing intellect so much as I view it as a DQ level of
self-preservation supplanting a SQ static intellectual latch of military
order.  The DQ individual in an emergency is not held accountable for an SQ
intellectual formulation.  He/she is able to use a DQ intellectual
spontaneity and is rewarded for heroism. The soldier never loses the DQ
intellectual level and can heroically manage the situation in the best
possible way given the circumstances and is so rewarded for bravery in
maintaining order, and not punished for the chaos of murder.   Wartime
patriotism is still an intellectual or emotional capacity rather than a
social cause.  
 
Social causes frequently produce hysterical behavior, and I am suspicious of
a social level in evolution.
 
Joe  

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> Another related enigma is  how murder brings medals in
> war, but is a crime in times of peace. This enigma is intellect-as-SOM
> created, claiming human rights worth, freedom yet, having to watch
> that all these abandoned if/when the bells toll. It's been a monster
> platypus for as long as intellect has been in the driver's seat. The
> MOQ explains this as when the intellectual latch don't hold we slip
> down to the much stronger social latch where "our cause" takes over
> and where no qualms exist by killing the enemy. But this also requires
> the SOM-intellect, the Mind-intellect has zero explanatory power