They cannot learn any philosophical or otherwise abstract concepts by reading them and only have the preachings of itinerant mullahs for any direction, so, U betcha! Their plight is the the result of their inability to think either abstractly or logically, and it really does encumber them, socially and technologically. Try reading the book; you, too, might still have something to learn about all worldviews not working equally well RW, especially mentally truncated ones.
At Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:20:57 -0800, you wrote:
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>And you blame lack of philosophy rather than illiteracy for their plight?
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>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
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>At Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:19:43 -0800, you wrote:
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>>Joe Dees wrote:
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>><<When people attempt to not philosophize they only end up philosophizing
>>implicitly and poorly, whether they call their position an it an ist, an
>>ish, an ing or an ian.>>
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>>Do you have any evidence to back that claim? For instance, have you done
>any
>>studies, or do you know of any, that show that people with explicit
>rational
>>philosophies are more successful in any way than others? Or do you just
>take
>>it on faith that it's true?
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>>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>>Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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>I refer you to COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: ITS CULTURAL AND SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS by
>A. R. Luria (a late professor of psychology at Moscow University), where
>illiterate Russian peasants were found to be frozen at the Piagetian level
>of concrete operations, unable to solve the most elementary abstract
>problems, and unable to think in terms of hypothetical scenarios, causing a
>massive deficit in both their ability to innovate and their ability to plan
>for changing circumstances, and a subsequent lower subsistence level and
>lifespan.
>Joe E. Dees
>Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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