Thanks again. Right you are. I think it is predicated on the ability to see the whole, figure out a logical strategy for working with the whole, in a local way, and then confront your "killer assumptions" that would make that logic inaccessible to you.
What I believe is that the safety mechanism is called "respect" i.e. the knowledge that every action is a holistic response of an organism to solving a perceived, but not necessarily consciously perceived problem, problematique i.e. group of problems. The issue is always "how appropriate that solution is to the problem at hand." There are ways worked out scientifically for computing the complexity of such problems and how to lower the complexity in the individuals involved and allow them to apply their logic. Again, I think the problem with the current government is that they are stuck psychologically in a multitude of those "double-binds" or collections of "killer assumptions" that amounts to a mental traffic jam that either slows down creating an emotional "venturi effect" or creates a "traffic accident" as in the Iraqi solution. As for religion, it is the group response to the individual's sense of the Mystery or the unconscious perceptions of the subtle web that binds us all together. We call it metaphorically "Spider woman" for she contains both the connection and the poison should we not be nimble enough to avoid the stickyness nor fast enough to avoid being her food. REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Reuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:34 PM Subject: RE: [Futurework] Origin and destiny of religion > Arthur Cordell wrote: > > Maybe with the fundamentalists in charge we have a greater chance of "saving > > humanity" than if the technocrats are in charge with ever greater > > technological fixes. May not want to live in a fundamentalist community, > > but they seem to be "sustainable" where ours is precariously predicated on > > growth. > > Are they? The Taleban drove SUVs too. So do Christian fundamentalists. > It's only consistent, because if you believe that this planet will be > destroyed soon anyway (on doomsday), why should you care for conserving > the environment? > > That's why I keep saying that the civilized world should Just Say No > to BOTH kinds of fundamentalists (religious and technological). > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
