ronr327 on "evolutionary democracy is Coopracy"

ronr327 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:01 +0100

Cooperacy, This is a position I have taken often here and elsewhere: (You might consult my blog site [http//:blogs.salon.com/0001185] We are social creatures, we live in mutually interactive, mutually supportive groups. We co-operate together in the business of life. Evolutionists would describe it as part of our survival strategy as a species. Any understanding about human beings that does not have human co-operativity at the core of its thinkng is unlikely to come up with anything of enduring value. Societies are a recipe for co-operativity. To spin a metaphor, they create a space across time and groups of individuals which allow them to co-operate together in life. Here is where, I expect, you and I will begin to diverge. I suppose three fundamental societal paradigms, linked in a process of what one might term (after Stephan J. Gould) pulsed evolution. Our first model for society was the wisdom of the ancestors and the laws and customs of the tribe. The first pulse came with large scale domesticated agriculture - we could feed large numbers of people reliabley over time. The attendent societal pargigm became top down authoritarianism. You needed large numbers of people constantly on the land to work it - an efficient organization over time of the sweat of our brows and the strength of our backs. You could get the simple repetative tasks of physical labor required by main force - any ten peasants could tend the fields and mind the fields as well as any other ten peasants. The second pulse came with the rise of modern science and technology. The attendent societal paragigm becomes democratic and furiously innovative. The work by which the world prospers changes. Today we prosper by the educated creativity of people. You will not get that by standing over people with a whip. You will get it by cutting people a good deal. Modern societies will prosper by the degree which they encourage a strong flow of educated creativity, i.e. foster populations secure in self governance, rich in opportunity fior innovation and its implementation, and able to project a satisfactory life for all. Think about this: Three hundred years ago there were no democracies (Pace Switzaland); today they are the most dynamic and successful societies we have. Three hundred years ago if you had proposed you had to educate all of a society's children, you would have been laughed at. Today it is the utterly unquestioned reality throughout the developed world.

Ron Allen on "evolutionary democracy is Coopracy"

Ron Allen — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:59:48 +0100

coopracy_1 wrote:

Coopracy is the evolutionary development of democracy.the original intent of democracy was to allow the society to progress in a positive and logical development of the culture.

I am at a loss for words. Can anyone decipher this post ?

evolutionary democracy is Coopracy,

coopracy_1 — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:47:08 +0100

Coopracy is the evolutionary development of democracy.the original intent of democracy was to allow the society to progress in a positive and logical development of the culture. the intention was to create the forum through which discussion caused the gradual gain in insight through the intellect. If one asks the question, what is god?, usually the person questioned is confused, as what to answer. if one asks the question what does democracy mean? usually the response is the same. if ne asks what they think Coopracy means ? the intuition of those asked responds naturally, the individual automatically grasps the meaning of the word. Therefore an act of evolution has taken place within the personal environmental culture of the individual. Read the rest of this post...

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evolutionary democracy is Coopracy,