[extropy-chat] John C. Wright finds god

[Natasha Vita-More]

Your friend might be a reductionist or a deconstructivist, or simply like 
to build things from other things.

But isn't life a matter of taking what is around us, or what we pay 
attention to, and making our own connections and then calling it 
art?  Nothing wrong with that at all.

Natasha

At 12:16 PM 10/16/04 +0100, you wrote:
>Well, perhaps my mind is still in the twentieth
>century. In one sense I'm a conservative, in that my
>reference point is the past.
>Incidentally a post-modernist student told me culture
>is a construct-- is that so?
>
> > Clumping all of culture together reduces the ability
> > of systems to adjust
> > to change.  There is no typical product of our
> > culture because you are
> > including "our" into the concept, which means that
> > you are including all
> > aspects of culture and the social, technological,
> > environmental, economic
> > and political drivers and trends. Including all
> > aspects would include, not
> > exclude, the trends that drive change, intentional
> > or not, and set the
> > standard for cultural branding.  One very
> > significant aspect of this
> > branding is how women are perceived.  Women are not
> > perceived as dumb for
> > gain, whether it be sexual gain, professional gain,
> > monetary gain, or
> > social gain.
> >
> > Taking a 20th century neg-concept is of little value
> > in our
> > culture.  Society is one thing, culture is another.
> > Society may want to
> > view women as dumb so that it can foster the vicious
> > cycle of male
> > dominance, but culture does not see it that way.
> > Culture works as a
> > catalyst to make social changes, and one of the
> > prime catalytic trends is
> > releasing women from the labels which are highly
> > damaging.
> >
> > Women are actively encouraged to be smart, get an
> > education, reduce
> > pregnancies, and become self-reliance.  In the past
> > 100 years, women have
> > made enormous strides to ride themselves, ourselves,
> > of the chains of
> > slavery and suppression.
> >
> > Our culture wants women to excel.
> >
> > Natasha
> >
> >
> > Natasha Vita-More
> > http://www.natasha.cc
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