From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 09:11:39 MDT
In a message dated 4/8/2003 6:58:38 PM Central Standard Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com quotes Ron h: I think determining which is the best ESS is
what we need to be discussing. However, I do want to emphasize that I am
looking at an evolutionary society not a static one. The problem with the
southern middle class society was that in many ways it was too static.
Then Lee replied: Why would you say so? Was (or is) it likely to be too
unaccepting of new ideas, have too little emphasis on education, or what?
Lee,
The south IMHO spent too much time on spilt milk and maintaining
supremacy over the black race. I am in an odd position in that I am a
southerner whose immediate ancestors of that time fought for Mr. Lincoln.
Never the less that is my observation.
I find myself welcoming the possibility of discussing the ideas of
Gatto but unwilling to try to immediately prescribe what a Gatto like society
would be like. Even a thorough statement on my part would tend to draw
battle lines -- lines that I don't intend.
I am much taken by Gatto's report on the dialectic method of the
Puritans. They did not build their society based on experts opinions or on
the dictates of the powerful. There is no doubt in my mind that through the
dialectic they made some horrible mistakes. But equally they corrected those
errors (IMO) and became very progressive.
As our future society will be determined through trial and error
perhaps a good way to start would be in a discussion of that particular
dialectic method?
Ron h.
BTW, sorry to take so long to answer but you slapped a big shot into my end
of the court -- that is good. <G>
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