roundtable: Re: Shooting Stars and Culture Wars

roundtable: Re: Shooting Stars & Culture Wars

Re: Shooting Stars & Culture Wars

Andrew R. Mark (andrewm@interport.net)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:47:04 -0500 

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:47:04 -0500
Message-Id: <199511011647.LAA11234@park.interport.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: "Andrew R. Mark" <andrewm@interport.net>
Subject: Re: Shooting Stars & Culture Wars


Vigdor:

The only difference in our thoughts is one of timeline...

If a person's self-interest is based on a long time-line, and the scope 
to be able to assess the world in a similar horizon, a philosophical 
view results... doesn't it???

Obviously, self-interst on a short time-line also results in a philosophy
which will, in all cases, be different than the view that develops with a
longer view.

Accordingly, a 'bright' person, one who has the ability to store and 
process more information, is more likely to be able to view the longer 
term while continuiing to function in the moment.  

Yes, no?

Andrew


Andrew R. Mark
<andrewm@interport.net>


At 05:00 PM 10/31/95 -0500, Vigdor Schreibman - FINS wrote:
>
>On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Andrew R. Mark wrote:
>....
>> 
>> As far as who is the most trust-worthy person to deal with, I'll take the
>> smartest person around: the one who has the brains to know what's in 
>> his/her self-interst. Those who work from a philosophical base, without 
>> real self-interest at heart, are, by far, the most dangerous, regardless 
>> of their current philosophical bent.  
>
>   This is a strange statement.  Trust-worthiness is obviously based on
> more than mere knowledge of self-interest; a consideration of legal and
> moral or social responsibility to others being of paramount importance. 
> On the other hand, sound knowledge of the philosophical context of the
> existing situation can provide an individual or organization the most
> meaningful basis for action.  The latter is a danger only insofar as it
> offers the greatest challenge to racial bigotry, inequity, and other
> threats to liberty and justice. 
> 
>   It is narrow self-interest that promotes the very forms of racism, and
> monopoly capitalism, which threaten to destroy the promise of democracy 
> in the Information Age.
>
> Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>

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