Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA23886 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:56:45 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: cheetah.nor.com.au: Host [202.147.129.230] claimed to be green-machine Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020207172345.006b5800@pophost.nor.com.au> X-Sender: jeremyb@pophost.nor.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:23:45 +1100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Jeremy Bradley <jeremyb@nor.com.au> Subject: Re: ply to Grant In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F1459RKLpgTFur0001b94b@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
At 06:30 AM 6/02/02 -0800, you wrote:
>>
>>At 07:18 AM 5/02/02 -0800, you wrote:
>>Snip.............>
>> >So, yes, the engineering of cultural change IS worth billions to both the
>> >individuals who do the engineering and to the populations that adopt his
>> >ideas.
>> >
>> >Grant
>> >
>>Is this about the survival of the fittest or the fattest Grant. What about
>>intergenerational equity?
>>Jeremy
>>
>I thought we were applying the survival of the fittest to the memes here,
>not people we like or dislike. And what's intergeneraltional equity got to
>do with whether a new technology makes money or not? I don't even know what
>you mean by intergenerational equity. Are you talking about generations of
>memes or generations of people? And what kind of equity? Equity between
>what and what? The culture of Henry Ford's manufacturing process has
>certainly survived for several generations of both humans and memes. That
>of Bill Gates looks to keep going while many others drop by the wayside. So
>I'm not sure what your question was meant to imply.
>
>Grant
>
OK Grant
I admit that I have no respect for greed or greedy people, but what has
making money got to do with whether fitness to survive exists or not?
Surely you don't think that a few generations of financial 'success'
indicates superiority or 'fitness.
Intergenerational equity is a term on which 'The Precautionary Principle'
is based. It refers to the idea that future generations (our kids and their
kids ad infinitum) have as many rights to an unspoiled environment as the
present generation does. The precautionary Principle, theoretically, guides
development in the 'civilised' world. In brief it states that if we can't
prove that no damage will result from an action, then we should not
undertake that action. Needless to say, though it sounds nice, corporate
heavyweights, like ENRON, find ways to pervert its high ideals.
My question was to do with the relative nature of fitness. It is the same
as my questioning of other subjective dichotomies.
I hope that I have made myself more clear this time Grant
Jeremy
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