From: James Daugherty (daugh@home.msen.com)
Date: Tue Jan 19 1999 - 05:29:24 MST
>Right, notice the wording: "no such entity". She was reminding us that
>society has no independent, concrete existence, contrary to the hoary
>fashion of reifying, and ultimately deifying, the idea. Encouraging our
>tendency to "thingize" groups, particularly "society", "community",
>"government" and so forth, has allowed the power freaks to get away with
>murder (literally, in many cases). They know that most people won't take
>the trouble to examine the fallacies to which we're prone.
>Dick
Unfortunately, Ayn Rand was wrong. Collectives are real! Memes
create social organisms just as genes create regular biological
organisms. One could just a well say that the human body doesn't
exist! Really, the human body is a group of individual cells, albeit
co-operating in complex ways. Nonsense! Collectives and
human bodies do exist......fortunately, with self-awareness, one
does not have to be part of a collective.
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