From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 11:46:25 MDT
> (Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>):
>
>> I like this analogy. In some ways, agriculture was (at first) a net
>> negative for the /individuals/ in agricultural societies, but a
>> positive for the societies as meta-individuals.
>
> Exactly. However, it is still very much the same. Look at most rugged
> individualists. They invariably either hunt, fish, or otherwise seek to
> recreate the 'noble savage' in their own lives as a means of renewing
> the individualist spirit. Look at any sort of socialist. They are
> invariably biased toward organized agriculture, toward social
> specialization and putting each individual into the proper brick form
> for their place in the wall. Any means of celebrating or empowering the
> individual is seen as criminal, immoral, wrong.
Sorry, but I have to reject your generalization here. I'm as die-hard
an individualist as there is, but I'm also a city boy, despite having
been born and raised in the rural South. I may totally reject the idea
that I have any obligations to a larger society, or that groups of
people have rights, but I nonetheless realize that using the power of
groups is a great way to achieve my individual goals. Hunting and
fishing isn't going to get me any closer to immortality or omniscience.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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