It often goes unnoticed that a great many ideas are assumed to be wholly, intrinsically good in every possible situation. Most of them are very emotive ideas that its not very nice to pick on like growth and equality and mass education. If you desire to change a civilization by implementing an idea, it should be pointed out that all you are really doing is changing the rules to the game. Much of the progressive attitude comes from envisioning civilization as being a machine. You say I will remove this cog and replace it with a much better one and then you assume that the rest of the machine improves and that which is produced is automatically improved in every given situation. It used to be a clockwork machine concerned with producing ideas, material and people of quality. Then they fired the board of technicians (people who might haughtily and stuffily call themselves geniuses or the great men/women of all ilks and who we called them that too) and it became a systemic computational machine, blind like the systems of Maturana and Varella. All it does is keep itself going and has no knowledge of what is outside it. It makes and remakes itself for no reason but is not yet at the stage of producing its own intention except continuation. The history of progress is like the history of attempting to square the circle - yes things were precipitated that are extremely useful and beneficial for certain things and not for others (like calculus) as part of the process, but the idea in itself of a solved society is deluded and impossible.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:31:25 +0000
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