Magnus Berg (qmgb@bull.se)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:19:46 +0100
Hi Kevin and Squad
> 1. Why don't the Nazi have place in the intellectual level? You seem only
> to want to include the good thoughts, but the bad ideology of the Nazi's
> also must be given room. They justified their killings with a system of
> intellectual ideas. You call this merely "intellectual's tools in the
> service of a lower level" but they thought they were serving Dynamic
> quality, not social custom. Social custom, biological death, and
> "intellectual tools" all served, what they THOUGHT was a higher more
> evolutionary goal. Why are they wrong? A better answer than: they used
> impolite social customs needs to be given. Or else I can call all thoughts
> which don't agree with mine Social, while all my thoughts are Intellectual.
The thing is, you can't call a thought social. That's like asking, how much
does the taste of chocolate weigh?
I think we have a problem with this mixing up of the intellectual and social
levels. They can't be compared, end of story. As Bo said the other post:
The "Social Static value" of MOQ is extremely basic. It is the good
of the many at the cost of the individual. Full stop!
He goes on:
Kevin says that Nazism was an extremely bad idea, and it definitely
was/is from Intellect's side. However from society's side it was no
IDEA - a lower level does not "know" any level above itself - it was
duty, sacrifice, honour: good social values, which - when/if
Intellect goes to fast and looses foothold - is the next safe latch.
I think this mix-up is the cause of many contradictions that people think
they see in the MoQ. Such pseudo contradictions disappear when you get
rid of that mix-up.
Magnus
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