Magnus Berg (qmgb@bull.se)
Sat, 25 Oct 1997 02:48:18 +0100
Hi James!
james.mccabe wrote:
>
> I think an institution can make decisions and act on them without any
> particular individual in this society fully understanding or controlling
> what is going on. As you yourself point out the whole is greater than
> the sum of the parts (in fact I have noticed that you seem to consider
> the social level chiefly in these very general terms).
Yes I do. And you're right about the institution being able to make
decisions on its own. But in this particular case I think the
intellectual realization helped in the decision making.
> A level resists higher levels because it is unable to distinguish it
> from lower levels. For instance, the social level resists the
> intellectual level because it is unable to distinguish freedom of
> expression from vice.
Yes! For static patterns, DQ is pure evil.
Magnus
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