Hi Carl,
The idea is striking and very well articulated indeed and it's also
great
that Carl S. has joined the team. I especiallly favour the use of the
term
eco environmentalism as an emerging force (arising from changing
mentality)that seeks to replace the kinda ill-defined historic materialism.
However, I still haven't got your thoughts on the previous piece I sent
through but I do have something interesting and fresh: have you noticed
a
thread going on in Slashdot.org by the name of "Globalism, Corporatism,
and
open source"? The URL is :
http://slashdot.org/features/02/04/04/1953218.shtml?tid=126
and I also came across a thought provoking paper on First Monday titled:
Can the Internet help slow environmental decline. Even thought it's
not
that fresh as the above, there are a few good ideas there to check
out.
George
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:50:40 +0900 Carl Vilbrandt wrote:
> George - Just another piece ....
>
>
> > One of the outcomes of this work shop is that he has
>
> > begun colabrating on a book called "Organis" that updateds
the theory
> > of history materialism to eco enviromentalism elevating the value
of
> > digial information above that of materials and processes.
The book is
> > suggesting that the
>
> Machiavellianism that predominates current social structures be
> replaced by rational determinism , that creates rational self regulating
> organisms social structures. The book is suggesting a merging of
large
> government, business and education in to small groups that are self
> regulating decentralized evolving symbiotic organistic groups similar
to
> organizations seen in the complex mirco rule based structures in
nature,
> that behave and function as very large organizations when needed.
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