Thanks for the pointer to the thread... it's a lovely one.
You're welcome and thank you. :)
Yes, I could imagine where if the world basically stays the same, but suddenly everybody wakes up and says, "Hey! What Am I Doing?" it would pretty much be a disaster. I'm certainly not proposing that, even as a thought experiment.
(...I mean, who would power the robotic masters then? Heh.)
Have you seen Richard Florida's "The Rise of The Creative Class"? The argument isn't identical but I believe it's at least a parallel. Among other things, he describes why cities have it in their best interest to encourage (inward-) migration for people for whom creativity is a virtue,
My guess (purely a guess) is that a small fraction, under 10%, of iconoclasts in a population might encourage lots of good things, and the overall amount of work required in (re-)negotiating societal rules, would be worth the effort. Though at present I'm not prepared to lay out exactly what that means... Maybe ultimately I'm just arguing for validation for Queer folk. Well, not validation in the sense of by the larger society, but from within. Dunno. I'll think about that.
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Date: Monday, 20 June 2005 04:42 am (UTC)You're welcome and thank you. :)
Yes, I could imagine where if the world basically stays the same, but suddenly everybody wakes up and says, "Hey! What Am I Doing?" it would pretty much be a disaster.
I'm certainly not proposing that, even as a thought experiment.
(...I mean, who would power the robotic masters then? Heh.)
Have you seen Richard Florida's "The Rise of The Creative Class"? The argument isn't identical but I believe it's at least a parallel. Among other things, he describes why cities have it in their best interest to encourage (inward-) migration for people for whom creativity is a virtue,
My guess (purely a guess) is that a small fraction, under 10%, of iconoclasts in a population might encourage lots of good things, and the overall amount of work required in (re-)negotiating societal rules, would be worth the effort.
Though at present I'm not prepared to lay out exactly what that means... Maybe ultimately I'm just arguing for validation for Queer folk. Well, not validation in the sense of by the larger society, but from within. Dunno. I'll think about that.