Back to AtD. the ideal timelessness of common sense

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/9/2012 9:48 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Nice little metaphysical joke on p. 933 at the Anarchist spa.
>   
> "How do you plan things?" Yashmeen was curious to know, "assign duties?
> Coordinate your efforts, that sort of thing?"
> "By knowing what has to be done. Which is usually obvious common sense."
> "Sounds like John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart all over again," she muttered.
>   
> Check out McTAggart if interested in wikipedia. But for one glossing purpose
> I offer two details about him. A British "idealist" who is famous for complexly
> arguing that Time does not exist (although eternity does).
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> I'll laugh at this AtD joke using the common sensical understanding of "idealism"--
> anarchism as an ideal.....and that "common sense"-- knowing what to do in a self-organizing
> community---is in some human sense timeless.....is with our origins........
>   
> is part of the meaning of Yashmeen's witticism and part of TRP's vision, I suggest
>   
>   
> P.S. a theoretical anarchist was once asked who would pick up the
> garbage in his ideal world.
>   
> "Anyone and they would be called garbagemen", he answered.
>
We know what has to be done, but what has to be done is in the future, 
never the now.

Yashmeen has a sharp ear for contradiction.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

P