> Hi All
>
> > I suggest that we discuss "the Giant." Cities as
living entities, larger
than
> > ourselves. Not against or for us. Does the Giant
have a Devouring
nature? How
> > do we relate metaphorically to the "City" as the
"red blood cell" does
to the
> > body or carbon based life forms does to the
inorganic level? Do you feel
the
> > pulse?
> > Todd - Gem7th)
Horse wrote:
A Giant in MoQ terms is (simply put) some pattern of
values created by Social value of which a City is but
one instance.
A Giant can be a University or a Corporation or a
Government or whatever Social pattern utilises
biological patterns for its own ends. Are Giants
limited to _Human_ Social patterns or do other
instances exist ( beehives, termite mounds etc)?
Mark B:
An MoQ Giant is all-powerful- a 'superorganism' which
employs lower social patterns- the farmer's hired
hands- to exploit biological value. These hired
hands supply accumulated biological energy or
sustenance for the Giant. In Ch.17, Phaedrus recalls
an earlier manifestation of a lower social pattern in
his own life when a large chemical firm offered jobs
for his fellow college graduates:
"Phaedrus had suddenly seen a tentacle of the Giant
reaching out and he was the only one who could see
it."
In MoQ terms the chemical firm was involved in an
immoral activity because a social pattern was
attempting to devour an intellectual pattern. However,
as a college education is now a prerequisite for entry
into a technology-driven free market, fraternities
"acting like they never heard of science as truth" are
in abundance.
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