| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Fwd: David Korten: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community | | Date: | Saturday, July 1, 2006 12:30:16 (+1200) | | From: | Rex Teague <elists234 @............nz>
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| In reply to: | Message 4212 (written by Jim) |
Thanks for proving my point Jim. Pray re-examine the thread from the
beginning.
Schumacher of "Small is Beautiful" fame has another book "A Guide for
the Perplexed" in which he elaborates the need to bring our higher
order faculties to bear on what he terms 'divergent questions' that
defy logical solutions.
Korten referenced Riane Eisler, her Partnership/Dominator thesis has
been an important model for me (nearly as effective as Thomas
Robertson's 'Mind - the Myth Maker') to reassess my cultural
conditioning/assumptions.
Cheers... Rex
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:20, Jim wrote:
> Hi Rex:
>
> I assume you must be familiar with the straw man fallacy?
>
> "Description of Straw Man
> The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a
> person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated
> or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of
> "reasoning" has the following pattern:
>
>
> 1.. Person A has position X.
> 2.. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of
> X). 3.. Person B attacks position Y.
> 4.. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.
> This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a
> distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an
> attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack
> on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person. "
>
> http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
>
>
>
> Since you use it when you state:
>
>
>
> "After careful consideration I've managed to shift my computer
> operating system from the _dominator_ M$ Windows OS to the
> _partnership_ GNU Linux one. During the deliberation period I saw
> the DVD "Revolution OS" at the local LUG and I distinctly remember
> Eric
> Raymond bristling at the accusation that OSS (open source software)
> was socialist/communist ie. detrimental to the dominator order."
>
>
>
> Take care,
>
> Jim
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