[MD] Free Will

[Jan-Anders]

This weekends MD had a high quality and I just want to thank all 
contributors for good and amusing reading.

The mail from Marilyn Davenport woke me up this morning and reminded me 
about that this is still a serious matter for many people.

The difference between social and intellectual values is important to 
understand because the free will is connected with this as I see it.

A prisoner in a system is not free to leave the system. A prisoner in a 
jail is not free to move, the space where he can choose to move is 
limited. A prisoner in a culture or religious system is not free to 
choose standpoint. A person who is free to think and choose his 
standpoint has an unlimited space of intellectual possibilities. Freedom 
is a space of possibilities.

Renassaince is a typical outbreak for intellectual forces, leaving the 
social values behind in favour of the scientific stars.

Democracy is another, leaving clans and tyrans behind in favour of polls 
and measurable election systems.

Static intellectual quality and patterns are measurable while dynamic 
quality is not measurable. Poor positivists left in the fog of 
measurelessness.

For a free democracy to work in reality it has to be commonly understood 
the difference between the social and the intellectual level. Those who 
don't understand the difference are not free. They are afraid. They are 
isolated by their own lack of distance.

Who will be responsible for maintaining the infrastructure of the 
intellectual level?

better

Jan-Anders