-L:28685] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery
Michael Perelman wrote:
The Wall Street Journal article does not say that the grinder represented
particularly modern technology; nor was it a commercial product. I think
most people would regarded as an example of appropriate technology.
Don't you find
Davies, Daniel wrote:
No fair. The EF Schumacher crowd are pretty non-judgemental on this sort of
issue. Appropriate technology basically just means technology that can
be maintained and repaired without requiring an already existing industrial
society; those wind-up radios certainly count.
**Completely off the subject. Your answer to my question on legal briefs
did not quite give the information I was looking for. Let me put it this
way. Imagine I'm about to go to trial in a civil suit with a lot of money
at stake. Taking your 15 hours a day for three weeks straight figure
I agree, but then who judges accountants like Andersens? Other accountants?
Does any profession ever pass adverse verdict on the leading lights of that
profession?
Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal, Satires, if I recall). An old
question. I haven't got an easy answer. We have this
How about nuclear engineers? Hospital surgeons and administrators? College
professors? You think any
of those groups currently want democratization of their expertise and
accountability if it means a
diminution of the scale and scope of their power? Just how much difference
would there be
Justin Schwartz wrote:
Why would be a such a great idea to have the demos tell college
professors how to run their shop? In most of this country, that would
result in the shut-down of biological departments, except for ag depts,
the conversion of most philosophy depts into bastions of
Justin Schwartz wrote:
In my typical, class-blinkered, petty bourgeois manner, I am a real fan
of
expertise. Democracy has its place, but not in micro-managing the use of
real expertise by real experts. There are skills that require long study
and
constant application to master, and where
In a message dated 7/27/02 6:07:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about nuclear engineers? Hospital surgeons and administrators? College
professors? You think any
of those groups currently want democratization of their expertise and
accountability if it means a
Justin mentions that an ill-informed public might interfere with a
rational university program. He is correct.
One of the difficulty of substantial reforms is that their success often
depends on a host of other reforms -- in this case, a reformed educational
system, media
Yesterday, NPR
Justin Schwartz wrote:
Why would be a such a great idea to have the demos tell college
professors how to run their shop? In most of this country, that would
result in the shut-down of biological departments, except for ag depts,
the conversion of most philosophy depts into bastions of
Justin Schwartz wrote:
In my typical, class-blinkered, petty bourgeois manner, I am a real
fan of expertise. Democracy has its place, but not in micro-managing
the use of real expertise by real experts. There are skills that
require long study and constant application to master, and where the
Michael Perelman wrote:
The Wall Street Journal article does not say that the grinder represented
particularly modern technology; nor was it a commercial product. I think
most people would regarded as an example of appropriate technology.
Don't you find something a touch patronizing about the
I don't find the term appropriate technology patronizing. Shiva was
pretty accurate in what she said about the Green Revolution. Like the
Monsanto Roundup-ready genetically modified seeds, it was intended to use
more industrially produced fertilizers and pesticides. The grinder was
appropriate
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In a message dated 7/26/02 5:03:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ian Murray wrote:
The strongest objections
Ian Murray wrote:
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Actually Feenberg, coming from a Marxian-Marcusian-Heideggerian standpoint pays a
lot of attention
to May 68 as well as address property relations. But you'd have to actually read his
books to see
that.
I intended my comment to apply only to the specific sentence
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