> Pille Bunnell wrote in her ESSAY "conserving a culture":
>
> "we can imagine the consequences at the global, but we can never see
> the global"
>
>
>
> Dear Pille,
> sorry I forgot: You wrote "we can imagine the consequences at the
> global, but we can never see the global". This is what it is
> really about and what we should concern ourselves with: Never say
> never.
> Humanity has been electrified with pictures form orbit, and a mayor
> goodwilling "mania" started with "seeing GAIA, the globe
> as a whole". But it was and is not enough to see the fragility, even
> when so visisible, aesthetic, and powerful. It was used to
> justify losts of spendings, but it is not enough to get and maintain a
> humility "the more we gaze".
> I know as I was close to ISY - International Space Year...1992 ...
>
> These pictures get old, we get used to them, they are not immersive,
> and the feeling is de-tached, the observer attitude is
> maintained... as I mentioned in the message "image versus show" (Ivan
> ILLICH)
>
> To make a difference, I do it actually and know, that we can create
> pictures and models which allow us to immmerse &
> embody in order to discuss, share and feel scales, proportions and
> consequences. That has been my work staring eben before
> the KLUWERS ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS preparations and follow up of the
> SERIES : CREDIBILITY OF ECOLOGY
> (started in 1986)
>
> So in order to get the difference:
> We have to make real the proportions, scales and consequences, and I
> have cc:ed for excample to Robert
> LAMSON, Panetics, Y. Dror CAPACITY OT GOVERN, and John McConnell
> EARTHDAY - as I feel they might get what
> I mean when I want to make things and subjects more plastic and solid.
>
> Heiner
>
> SHARING FUTURES - times, spaces, voices, views, values,..
>
> in SHARED PERSPECTIVE
> http://newciv.org/cob/members/benking/
> http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/homepageHB1.htm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Heiner BENKING, Box 2060, D - 89010 Ulm
>
> SEE:
> * ON GLOBAL THINKING AND FEELING:
> http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/ifsr/IFSRnov98pp.htm
> http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/uiu_plus/isss98/house-of-eyes.htm
> * ON HUMANITY & WAR -
> http://www.bfranklin.edu/hubs/global/benking.htm
> * ON ME/FUTURES -
> http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/borderland.htm
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> Wisdom, imagination and virtue is lost
> when messages double, information halves, knowledge quarters,...
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