At Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:52:07 -0800, you wrote:
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>I can't imagine who would argue either that all worldviews are equally
>useful or that mental deficiency is advantageous.
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>Level 3 is more useful than Level 2 for certain purposes such as
>self-satisfaction, personal empowerment, and versatility of relationships.
I know; that's your philosophy and you're sticking to it! ;~)
>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
>Of joe dees
>Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 5:53 PM
>To: virus@lucifer.com
>Subject: Re:RE: RE: RE: virus: materialism and other worldviews
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>They cannot learn any philosophical or otherwise abstract concepts by
>reading them and only have the preachings of itinerant mullahs for any
>direction, so, U betcha! Their plight is the the result of their inability
>to think either abstractly or logically, and it really does encumber them,
>socially and technologically. Try reading the book; you, too, might still
>have something to learn about all worldviews not working equally well RW,
>especially mentally truncated ones.
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>At Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:20:57 -0800, you wrote:
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>>And you blame lack of philosophy rather than illiteracy for their plight?
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>>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>>Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
>>Of joe dees
>>Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 3:54 PM
>>To: virus@lucifer.com
>>Subject: Re:RE: RE: virus: materialism and other worldviews
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>>At Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:19:43 -0800, you wrote:
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>>>Joe Dees wrote:
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>>><<When people attempt to not philosophize they only end up philosophizing
>>>implicitly and poorly, whether they call their position an it an ist, an
>>>ish, an ing or an ian.>>
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>>>Do you have any evidence to back that claim? For instance, have you done
>>any
>>>studies, or do you know of any, that show that people with explicit
>>rational
>>>philosophies are more successful in any way than others? Or do you just
>>take
>>>it on faith that it's true?
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>>>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>>>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>>>Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
>>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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>>I refer you to COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: ITS CULTURAL AND SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS
>by
>>A. R. Luria (a late professor of psychology at Moscow University), where
>>illiterate Russian peasants were found to be frozen at the Piagetian level
>>of concrete operations, unable to solve the most elementary abstract
>>problems, and unable to think in terms of hypothetical scenarios, causing a
>>massive deficit in both their ability to innovate and their ability to plan
>>for changing circumstances, and a subsequent lower subsistence level and
>>lifespan.
>>Joe E. Dees
>>Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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