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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs
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To: ahhaha who wrote (8014)4/14/2006 11:34:37 AM
From: gpowellRead Replies (2) of 24758
 
The question is, just what is meant by "moving along lines of force"?

I’ll take at shot at it.

Individuals are moved to act by their needs – this is the field. Collective individual action combine to create complex lines of force. We can think of a social structure as being created by a particular configuration of individual action (eddies in the complex field), with any particular configuration partly determined by random chance, but also determined by exogenous factors such as geography and the abundance of natural resources. For many individuals, these “eddies” take on the property of a permanent structure such that it begins to exert its own field. Society can develop along the lines of force as determined by our needs, or along lines of force as determined by the “rule of law.” That is the basic conflict, i.e. do we act to satisfy our needs or to satisfy this era's dogma. Needs eventually supplant dogma.
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