Re: [ox-en] Food production and Free Software
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:43:50 +0100
Hi Claude and all!
Benni interpreted me very well :-) .
Yesterday I Claude Harper wrote:
what about primitive societies?
Self-enfolding is the natural state of things. It's religion and government
that has prevented it.
Self-unfolding needs freedom. IMHO freedom is something which is
available to humans only. That's BTW why I think it doesn't make sense
to speak of self-unfolding animals or plants. They are not really free
because they are controlled much more by there genetic programs than
humans. May be if there is something like culture - which seems to be
among Bonobos and even Chimpanzees for instance - there is enough
freedom to speak about self-unfolding.
what about the arts? I see self-enfolding there at times.
Sure. Arts are one of the very early examples of self-unfolding. I'm
emphasizing this myself. Perhaps you may even say that the existance
of art may be an indicator for freedom / possibility of
self-unfolding. And BTW I think it's not by chance, that programming
is often compared to arts.
There may be some unique things about Free Software, but it's not the
self-enfolding itself.
Agreed.
This is way of nature, the Tao, or whatever.
I think it's the way of humans / freedom.
My
hope is that Free Software will help break the damn that has been built up
against it.
Yes.
As far as I can tell, self-enfolding is just the positive expression of the
concept of anarchy. Whereas to use the word "anarchy" emphasizes and what's
not there, using "self-enfolding" emphasizes what is there.
*Very* good point!
And I liked what Benni commented :-) .
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
_______________________
http://www.oekonux.org/