From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 18:37:20 BST
Platt / Paul
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>All economics, the production and distribution of
>goods and services, is "social quality" is it not?
This statement puzzles me somewhat.
It seems to hide too much...
Taking it apart, it seems that economy is
the aggregate behavior of markets,
a market is the aggregate behavior of the
people and organizations participating in
that market (clear enough as "social"),
but at the level of people acting it looks
different.
Creating a production process is an act of
dynamic intellect to establishing a static
reality of the "intellectual design." The
purpose of which is to allow a "society" of
workers to act upon the physical resources
by way of the system to ensure an efficient,
effective, static production requiring little
dynamic attention.
Service businesses are even more an example
of "dynamic" intellectual work. Services are
often never repeated in a given situation. (e.g.
programing a business specific application.
or removing a brain tumor)
So there are distinctly intellectual and physical
components. Am I over thinking it or do these
bear consideration to avoid oversimplifying?
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> > Society has largely succeeded in controlling
>>these biological impulses but it seems clear
>>to me that intellect has not yet managed to
>>control man's obsession with social quality.
>
> Seems to me Western society is still at war with
>biological impulses called "terrorism" sanctioned
>by radical Islam society.
Islam, as a religion, exists on three levels:
Social - all the rules for behavior
Intellectual - their dogma and writ
Spiritual - their personal experience beyond intellection.
Those twisted authority figures who selfishly preach jihad
by cowardice (sorry for the editorial) are acting as social
authority and not simply at a biological level. It really puts
us in a problem relationship. Two genuine social level
systems are in collision.
In the West the intellectual is still wearing training wheels
and has trouble controlling the Social, but in the Islamic
Arabic world, their intellect is still in the crib and not in any
position to control anything in the aggregate or just one
little group in each mosque at a time.
I do not mean to sound insulting, but there is no central
structure in Islam, it is as diffuse as fundamentalist
ministers in the U old good S of A, each one is a pope.
thanks--mel
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