[MD] Keep on Duckin'

[MarshaV]

Arlo,

There is much you say that I can agree with.  

You are entitled your interpretation, which I will not attack, while I am 
entitled to mine.  


Marsha


On May 14, 2011, at 6:03 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:

> [Marsha]
> Should patterns be seen as promoting "agency" when millions of people are
> suffering from patterns of bondage? 
> 
> [Arlo]
> And millions and millions are travel around the world, and don't have to worry
> about hunger, and make use of libraries and bookstores, and go to schools to
> learn things, and can jump on their motorcycles and drive across country, and
> can check the weather on their computers, or engage in metaphysical dialogue
> with people around the world.
> 
> Structures provide us with greater and greater agency, our biological structure
> prevents us from flying (no wings), but our legs enable us to walk around. Our
> social participating allows us greater "freedoms" than we enjoyed as pre-social
> primates wandering around the jungle. 
> 
> "The idea that, "man is born free but is everywhere in chains" was never true.
> There are no chains more vicious than the chains of biological necessity into
> which every child is born. Society exists primarily to free people from these
> biological chains." (LILA)
> 
> Are these structures also constraining? Of course. Is there a danger when
> structure becomes so entrenched it can longer evolve? Of course. 
> 
> But I'll take the "freedoms" these structures enable any day over the really
> imprisoning way things would be without them.
> 
> "The cells Dynamically invented animals to preserve and improve their
> situation. The animals Dynamically invented societies, and societies
> Dynamically invented intellectual knowledge for the same reasons." (LILA)
> 



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