Bill,
It seems that metaphor has overtaken model. I am unsure as to what the
theory or model of collective development in LBE is? A movement toward
complexity? I have the feeling, I could be wrong, that you don't accept
the marxist theory of social evolution that guided Vygotsky and Luria's
thinking. It has always seemed to me that many of the more frequent
contributors here reject the notion of social development in general. We
all accept that the human organism grows up and goes through a series of
transformations on the way to acquiring competence as a fully functioning
member of society (even if we don't call that development). Your original
statement about the tension between collective and individual process
presumes something similar for the social. What is it?
Paul H. Dillon
"It seems ridiculous to me to attempt to study society as a mere observer.
He who wishes only to observe will observe nothing, for as he is useless in
actual work and a nuisance in recreations, he is admitted to neither. We
observe the actions of others only to the extent to which we ourselves
act." - Jean Jacque Rousseau
"For fools rather admire and delight in all things which they see hid under
inversions and intricacies of words, and consider those assertions to be
truths which have power to touch the ear agreeably, and which are disguised
with the pleasantness of sound." - Titus Lucretius Carus
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