tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post2487378913749898558..comments2024-03-29T18:16:16.530+11:00Comments on The Social Pathologist: Supercharger.The Social Pathologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-47968612358484627122012-03-13T21:31:51.524+11:002012-03-13T21:31:51.524+11:00@Robert.
Thank you.
Sometimes I wonder if I'...@Robert.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting any traction.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-60335788252267952972012-03-13T13:29:46.564+11:002012-03-13T13:29:46.564+11:00Thanks for your reply. Back when I first asked th...Thanks for your reply. Back when I first asked this question, I think your answer would have most closely matched up with Tao being the "closeness" of a society to an arbitrary perfect society in terms of stability and prosperity.<br /><br />After reading more of this site, I now understand what you mean by Tao and its relation to a prosperous society in the effect that it is the recognition of universal forms of nature and humanity, and the aim to construct society in the best reflection of it.<br /><br />I want to thank you for your writing, specifically in attempting to relate concepts of god and faith in a rational manner. When I first came to this site, I could be considered a conservative reductionist or empirical agnostic. To a large extent I still am and it fluctuates often, but many of the articles have provided me with an open mind to classical religion, and its attempts to discern reality.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-88514188372513691832012-02-24T11:14:09.067+11:002012-02-24T11:14:09.067+11:00@Robert
Thanks for your kind words.
t seems as t...@Robert<br /><br />Thanks for your kind words.<br /><br /><i>t seems as though you are quantifying Tao as the ability of a civilization to provide happiness in a stable environment,</i><br /><br />You've got to think of society as a product of numerous interactions of people, and that those interactions are governed by people's and institution's respective moral codes. Society can be considered a "mechanism" which operates according to its individual components. These individual components interact according to their respective moral codes. i.e their moral properties.<br /><br />So at a fundamental level, societies are based on the moral code of individuals.<br /><br />It appears that any large and successful human society can only operate if the majority of members possess moral properties which were universally recognised. The Christians would have called it Natural Law whilst C.S. Lewis would have called it the TAO of life.<br /><br />My apologies, but the y-axis should really be labelled societal flourishing. What's apparent is that humans were only able to make complex societies function if the majority of their members lived by broad rules which appear to be universally common: The TAO of life.<br /><br />Living by this "TAO" seemed to produce a culture that was stable and moderately prosperous. The thing is, the Christian TAO, produced a hypersociety that dominated not only the world, but produced a fabulous flourishing within.<br /><br />I hope this explains the concept. Please let me know if you have any further questions.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-89567487620911535282012-02-23T14:07:28.775+11:002012-02-23T14:07:28.775+11:00Hello,
I stumbled upon your website recently (I t...Hello,<br /><br />I stumbled upon your website recently (I think from googling divorce statistics), and I think you do an excellent job at expressing many of the issues that affect the west in an objective manner.<br /><br />It is difficult to grasp some of your concepts, especially as I am reading the posts in reverse-chronological order. This post was particularly confusing to me.<br /><br />It seems as though you are quantifying Tao as the ability of a civilization to provide happiness in a stable environment, but to what extent? What I am confused on, is how you define the upper y axis of your graph. Is it the lifetime for that civilization, how closely it came towards the perfect system for human prosperity/stability at any point in time, or something else entirely? ThanksRobertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-89197561937702625482011-05-24T23:09:47.800+10:002011-05-24T23:09:47.800+10:00So, is society a bit likened to a game of jenga?
...<i>So, is society a bit likened to a game of jenga?</i><br /><br />Not really. It's more like running a nuclear reactor. Takes a while to get going and as long as things run within limits your O.K. Excursions from the design parameters may not affect the system for a while but then the shit really hits the fan.<br /><br /><i>On an unrelated topic, what made you choose family practice?</i><br /><br />I sort of drifted into it. I tried quite a few other specialties and found them intellectually boring. In addition specialty training in Australia is horrible on the family life. Most specialists are miserable gits. I did not want to be a miserable git.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-44934097232610473842011-05-24T05:23:21.627+10:002011-05-24T05:23:21.627+10:00So, is society a bit likened to a game of jenga?
...So, is society a bit likened to a game of jenga?<br /><br />On an unrelated topic, what made you choose family practice?andonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05531893840553364947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-85849707065786749932011-05-23T23:06:41.249+10:002011-05-23T23:06:41.249+10:00@Country Lawyer.
Nothing like sawing at the branc...@Country Lawyer.<br /><br />Nothing like sawing at the branch you're sitting on.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-59201883832994573652011-05-23T05:05:42.838+10:002011-05-23T05:05:42.838+10:00And now that foundation is gone in the west.And now that foundation is gone in the west.Country Lawyernoreply@blogger.com