From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 07:17:48 BST
Dear Sam,
You wrote 26 Jul 7:35 +0100:
"The MoQ postulates five moral conflicts: those between each level (Chaos -
In, In - Org, Org - Soc, Soc - Int) and static/dynamic. ... the terrorist
acts use elements of each of the conflicts, and that the most important one
is between societies, and that the key issue is which is the better
society - which society best contributes to the evolution of life?"
In your interpretation of terrorism you do NOT refer to conflicts BETWEEN
levels (as postulated), BUT to a conflict WITHIN the social level (between
societies) that can only be described from a higher, intellectual
perspective.
(From within the social level being part of a social system defines your
experience. You can only experience 'in' and 'out', whether something fits
the social patterns or or not. You can only compare contributions of
different social systems to 'the evolution of life', i.e. biological
quality, by participating in an intellectual pattern of value that reflects
the social level and the biological level.)
From that intellectual perspective you refer NOT to a CONFLICT between the
social and the biological level (in which a particular type of society has
better chances of beating biology than another type), BUT to the
CONTRIBUTION of society to biological quality.
For me terrorism is essentially a conflict between between intellectual
patterns of value, between sets of ideas about the 'value of' different
types of societies. (NB 'value' here understood in SOMical terms.)
Terrorists consider the value of a specific type of society to be so low,
that destroying it is legitimate, even if the chances that a better society
rising from its ashes are small.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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