Re: globalization:poor design?

["Marasigan . Vicente" <vic@pusit.admu.edu.ph>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, tom abeles wrote:
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> First, to me, the idea that human's can make mistakes, and as a species
> recover from them and pass this knowledge on within the same lifetime is
> the key to species survival as opposed to most which must pass the
> information forward in a linear fashion through genetics. 
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Somehow, the genes of genetics became associated with "memes" as you
pointed out long ago.  Through memes, cosmic evolution evolved a
cosmic memory of its 15 billion years of trial and error.  That memory
is now being formulated (again through trial and error) in human
intelligences.

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> It also points out that, unless we make the "ultimate"
> mistake and destroy the world, 
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Yes, there is that possibility. Knowing this entails responsibility.

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> We
> make no room for the evolution of an evolved species which might be a
> cyborg or a retulrn to the world of water with gills. We also have some
> bias to trying to see humans as bound to this planet.
> 
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In fantasy, there is room for us earthlings evolving into astronauts
inspired with a mission of evangelizing extragalactic superpowers.  In
fantasy too, there is room to devolve into a situation presented in
the movie Planet of the Apes and eventually into a technology of
global self-destruct.  Maybe, all the lurkers on this listserv can
contribute their own fantasies, and then decide: what evolution or
devolution shall we choose?

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> Y@K may not be the
> clarion call or the rally point which will bring popular support for
> massive changes in human thinking, the modular society as put forward by
> Roberto or the Resilient Community as put forward by Wheatley or
> Theobald and others. 
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And others like Larry Victor who says:

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> No person or group has a monopoly on THE  TRUTH, and there is much
> that I criticize about The Club of Rome.  However, their second
> project, not well known, reported in the book  NO LIMITS TO LEARNING:
> BRIDGING THE HUMAN GAP, by Botkin, Elmandjra and Malitza presents the
> positive side to the conclusions of their simulation in THE LIMITS TO
> GROWTH.  The latter simply said that if we continued to do business
> has we have, then the MODEL of that system, collapses.
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Thank you, Larry.  It is good to know that the Club of Rome's "if"
statement, although the only statement being promoted by corporation
managers, is conditioned by the way business is done (by those
managers). Can these managers be persuaded to change the way they do
business?

Congratulations on your web page.  Doing business may yet change when
managers learn (if they can) that some ways are headed for collapse
both for themselves and for everybody else residing in GAIA.  But GAIA
forces include learning and are long-term and ultimately more powerful
than the "market forces" used by global managers.

Vicente Marasigan