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To: Neocon who wrote (46953)	5/9/1999 5:54:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

JLA--- since some of the foregoing is technical, and presupposes an interest in, and knowledge of, modern philosophy, I am not sure if it made much sense to you. But the gist is that the modern world is characterized by a kind of traumatic blow to settled arrangements and traditional certainties, occasioned by varied processes, such as industrialization; urbanization; the revolution in science and technology; the breakdown of Christendom into competing sects and the making of civil peace through the quasi- secularization of society; and the radical questioning of the ground of knowledge and ethics into which philosophy fell. Conservatives cannot reverse these trends, but try to "ride the tiger", so to speak, affirming the continuities in our culture over the discontinuities, and taking a stand for maintaining human values. However, to do this properly it is necessary to realize how traumatic all of this has been, and in order to convey conservative insights to a larger audience it is necessary to appreciate that they inherited a bit of a mess, and that the mess is bigger than this generation, and part of something that transcends the responsibility of particular individuals, although it demands from us a response....

To: Neocon who wrote (46953)	5/9/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Errors are Amplified in the Mechanical World... Technology amplifies the power inherent in the human hand, and thus amplifies our ability to change the world according to our desires. In the service of our physical needs, this has been of great benefit. It gave us plows, irrigation, housing, sanitation, medicine and heating . But in the service of our inner needs it has been far from beneficial. Unconsciously assuming that these needs can also be satisfied by changing the world around, we have applied our creative energies and our technologies to the search for more and more powerful ways of getting what we think we want. As a result technology has not only amplified our power to change the world, it has also amplified the error in our thinking...with potentially disastrous consequences. It is the demands we make of the world in our relentless search for inner fulfillment that lead us to consume far more than we physically need. No other species consumes more than it needs.... This is because no other species has our inner needs, or the means to amplify the demands they create. It is this combination that is causing us to suck the earth dry... Seen in this light, the nuclear threat, the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the rainforests, the wide-scale extinction of species, acid rain, soil erosion, the depletion of the ozone layer, the problem of atomic waste, pollution, the energy crisis, the North-South crisis, the economic crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis, the housing crisis, the sanitation crisis, and the multiplicity of crises that humanity faces are all symptoms of a deeper psychological crisis... The real crisis is in our thinking, in our perception of what it is we really want, and how to set about getting it.