Ah, but then if one cannot (or does not) abide by that accomplishment of
education that gave the honourific of a title; if one is or may be
proven wrong in the assumptions used to achieve the exulted position of
the higher education, does one lose the title? How does one, proven to
be wrong, cope with the remainder of their life. We are not really
taught to back-track on assumptions to find out where we went wrong and
admit it. And if one 'comes out' to explain they made a mistake, will
that person ever be listened to again in this world of absolutes and
oppressive spitefulness?
If the education one receives is incomplete or skewed, it becomes nearly
impossible to formulate a new vision and be accepted or even listened
to. Let alone the acceptance of older, proven worthwhile methods that
may be brought forth to return a world to sanity.
D.
On 22/04/2012 8:09 PM, Tom Walker wrote:
But WHAT is accomplished depends at least in part on what was
believed, although the accomplishment is not necessarily in accord
with the belief. I don't believe in "polar opposites" other than as a
heuristic. The academic who can't find the way out may be just another
species of huckster.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Ray Harrell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The polar opposite of the huckster is the academic who can't find
the way out. One should remember that belief is a powerful tool
in accomplishment as is competence and mastery.
REH
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[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Tom
Walker
*Sent:* Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:01 PM
*To:* RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION
*Subject:* Re: [Futurework] Being Green Then and Now
Why be cynical? The long answer is in my message from last week,
"What's the Mythology For, Anyway?"
The short answer is we are contending with two competing aphorisms
here: "not letting perfection be the enemy of the good" and "bad
money driving out good". What I am cynical about is the Music Man
effect. Every good cause sprouts hucksters like dandelions and the
hucksterism soon becomes the only show on the bill. The
romantic/triumphant ending of the Music Man, recall, was fiction.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:36 AM, michael gurstein
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Tom,
Why be cynical about something that is in large part a good news
story...
There is so much quite legitimate bad news and bad judgement and
bad faith around that any glimmer of light even if flawed, is
worth cherishing IMHO.
M
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[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of
*Tom Walker
*Sent:* Friday, April 20, 2012 12:14 PM
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By the way, what do people think of "Gross National
Schadenfreude" as a counterweight to the nauseatingly coy
Gross National Happiness panacea with their fairytale
Bhutanese king? Where could OUR Bhutan be? Iceland?
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Tom Walker
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Just to be absolutely unambiguous, I'm as cynical as anyone
about the sincerity of the greenwashing industry -- "if you
can fake sincerity, you've got it made". My stuck-in-the-head
quote these days is Orwell's "All left-wing parties in the
highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because
they make it their business to fight against something which
they do not really wish to destroy." But it doesn't follow
that all right-wing parties are therefore NOT a sham.
I think one of the functions of schadenfreude is to reward and
reinforce cognitive dissonance. The ironic chuckle of "Being
green then and now" is at bottom a schadenfreude experience,
which, in true cognitive dissonance style, "absolves" the
chuckler of his or her peccadilloes.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Tom Walker
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Would you have in mind something along the lines of the
aptly-named "Titanic Eco-Spa"? Green buildings, spring water
and towels and a "spa traveler award". I kid you not.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Arthur Cordell
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Would also add to the cute message that oh so many greenies
are recycling
this and that and then without a thought jump on a jet to go
off to this or
that conference or vacation spot without a thought as to what
these and a
host of other personal activities are doing that run counter
to the religion
of being green.
arthur
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<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of
Mike Spencer
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:49 PM
To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Futurework] Re: Being Green Then and Now
Tom Walker wrote:
> Cute but false and misleading.
> [snip]
> "Cute" bullshit is still bullshit.
Well, yeah. But not any greater or more tedious bullshit than
many of the
putatively "green" odds & sods that we're expected (or forced)
to embrace
today, many of which (IMHO) are ways of externalizing some
large entity's
cost onto the consumer or create a profit ex novo.
Yes, the vast volumes of toxics and particulates fired up
smokestacks, down
drains and off tailings dumps before regulation outweigh, in
global effect,
plastic bags or gas lawn mowers. The point of the "cute"
piece was to
ridicule self-righteous Greenness among those who adopt and
evangelize the
Green Consumer Catechism without critical thought or
meaningful knowledge.
Or so I understood it.
- Mike
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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