Re: globalization:poor design?

["Laurence J.Victor" <nuu@azstarnet.com>]

I am replying here both to the INTERDOC listserv and BCC to those
responding to my NU_INVITATION. Vicente makes some excellent points,
which I responded to in a linked set of files now posted on my
website:

http://azstarnet.com/~nuu/INVITATION/comments_by_larry_to_vicente_1.htm

Some may view these issues as highly abstract -- they are, but the
abstract is also very real. I devoted some 4 hours to composing this
reply, and was more following my motivation than what I really should
be doing with my time -- like getting down to the basics of my
"gameplan".

I apologize to those who don't have WWW access and are dependent only
on email.  If you are in this group, I can make text copies of the
docs and send them as attachments to email if you so request.

Larry

At 07:24 PM 3/11/99 +0800, you wrote: 
>
> Hi, Larry et al.
>
> Congratulations on your GAMEPLAN.  Since you ask for suggestions, you
> might consider this one.  It concerns your statement that:
>
> >>The "realworld" will determine the complexity required, not the
> emotional resistance to complexity common to many activist projects.  NU
> activity involves people learning to relate to each other within the
> context of semiotic structures (perceivables that generate meaning). <<
>
> Perhaps we can include some meanings generated by the semiotic structure
> proposed by Teilhard de Chardin.  Emotional resistance to complexity is a
> fact.  To ignore this resistance is to be unrealistic.  
>
> Teilhard confronts this phenomenon by proposing the parameter of
> "complexity-consciousness"  as an arrow indicating the direction of
> evolution.  As complexity rises, the need to see its structure and meaning
> also rises, for "to see or to perish" is the very condition laid upon
> everything in an evolving universe.  Thus human consciousness became
> important for cosmic survival and it emerged in the process.  The
> parameter of "complexity-consciousnes" requires that consciousness be
> proportionately co-variant with complexity.
>
> Emotional resistance to complexity and emotional resistance to perishing
> are both facts.  The task is to clarify the alternatives.
>
> This is a highly specialized task.  Is this explicitly included in your
> GAMEPLAN?
>
> Vicente Marasigan




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