Re: MD MOQ psycology (?)

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 23:24:14 BST

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    Mel,

    Again, like DMB, you make my argument for me.

    > mel:
    > The terms "Political Correctness" and "Science" seem to stand
    > for two notions in opposition to each other, conceptually.

    Eactly, you cannot conceive of my view (it's unthinkable to you), because
    ...

    > mel:
    > PC is an attempt to limit intellect behavior to an approved
    > set of static quality social forms.

    Exactly, "Scientific logic applied to human affairs" is an incredibly
    resilient example of such a cultural norm.
    Let's all wake up from the meme dream please.
    (I really thought all MoQ'ers had done, but increasingly it seems not.)

    Ian Glendinning

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "ml" <mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:50 PM
    Subject: Re: MD MOQ psycology (?)

    >
    > > Ian said:
    > > The word "scientific" fills me with dread in the proposal here.
    > > Does everything still need to be "scientific" (ie politically correct)
    > > to be taken seriously these days ?
    > >
    > > dmb says:
    > > Huh? How do you figure? What is dreadful about the word "scientific"?
    How
    > do
    > > you figure the word has anything to do with being politically correct?
    I'm
    > > sorry Ian, but this doesn't make any sense.
    > >
    > > On second thought, never mind. Don't bother trying to explain.
    >
    > mel:
    > The terms "Political Correctness" and "Science" seem to stand
    > for two notions in opposition to each other, conceptually.
    >
    > PC is an attempt to limit intellect behavior to an approved
    > set of static quality social forms.
    >
    > Science is a methodology to pursue knowledge about
    > anything and by definition not limited to the static, but
    > capable of pursuing the dynamic as well.
    >
    > So, to my understanding a scientific approach seems to
    > at the very least independent of PC, if not outright antagonistic
    > to the notion of PC as anything more than a minor social form.
    >
    > thoughts ?
    >
    > thanks--mel
    >
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