Joao and Club.<br>I thought we had met before -
at the Lila Squad perhaps - but see that you are a
Wilson club member too. OK that's fine, you'll perhaps
have noticed me acting the Pirsig "mole" over
there.<br><br>You are right ...brutal volume of advertising... says
it and the Quality IDEA will possibly not make it as
a product on the marketplace and yet it will make
it somehow. When the time is ripe ideas spread as if
by magic, and not only 'intellectual patterns' but
knowledge in its widest sense, you have possibly heard
about the birds opening milk bottles and the monkey's
potato washing technique spreading over great distances
and across the seas. I can't see what other direction
evolution (in its widest sense) may take right now. I have
this my pet idea that I have shown at the CW site, but
for the benefit of those here I repeat it?
<br><br>Using a hundred year yardstick, a person from 1900
would be completely lost to-day, one from 1800 would
find 1900 a bit strange but manageable. A 1700 person
would recognize most tools and procedures in 1800
(except for the political changes) and so it goes until
there is no perceptibe changes - one from year 8oo
would find nothing new in 900 ...except for the people.
This makes a change/time curve that is almost flat
aeons and then slowly starting to rise around the
Renaissance - more at the Industrial Revolution - and having
become steeper and steeper ever since. There are more
new products (and procedures connected with them)
made during the last few years than throughout the
whole of history. I spoke about a person from 1900
being lost in 2000, but in the infotech branch one is
outdated if away for some months these days (I read about
one who was sacked after a long sick leave). Now, my
idea is that such sinus curves can't go on - it's
forbidden mathematically - there can't be infinitely much
change over no time. But what is there to stop it?
Innovation has become economy itself and the smallest sign
of abation sends shockwaves into the stock exchanges
and experts to talk about stagnation and make it
sound as if collapse is just around the
corner.<br><br>I could go on about this ..... how the Western
world seems locked into a relentless race and tries to
convert all to its progress religion by first creating
the fear of poverty (its "sin") and hope for
development (salvation) and can't comprehend how - for
instance - Islamic fundamentalists refuse to be
converted......but will stop. My idea is of course that the Quality
Metaphysics not only explains the West/Islamic conflict, but
also represent a change for change to stop. How? I
will try to explain, but for now close and join you in
"..you can sort of tell these things." <br>Bo