Ah, the days of human competence and the need for it are rapidly disappearing.
Years ago I had a friend, a very cultivated young baritone who was an expert in Bach. He had a lovely young girl friend who was beautiful in that sort of Episcopal manner of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Larry and Linda. Larry was from a wealthy rancher family around Vinita, Oklahoma and Linda had gone to Holland Hall the best private Episcopal high school in Tulsa. Larry took Linda home to meet momma on the ranch. Everything went well and I had dinner with the couple on their return. Now Larry did not look or act like a rancher in the Hollywood cowboy type. He was a real cowboy of the type of family as Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt in "After the Fall." Not the John Wayne or stereotypical Western that made the cowboy a standin for Sergeant York from Tennessee played by Gary Cooper. The Hollywood mogul culture made cowboys the model for American soldiers and Indians as a substitute for the Japanese culture in WWII. There were no stories in those movies about beheading every Indian warrior and father to send them to Washington for Phrenological research or paying $600 in the late 1900s for a complete Indian skeleton for study and medical school. Nor was much said about the clamor for extermination in the local newspapers across America in much the same way that Blacks are being parodied as a result of having a Great Black Father in the White House. John Wayne might have been a skeleton collector but Gary Cooper would never do that. Good guy/Bad Guy even then. In today's press there is an article that the Bank of America lied to homeowners as a strategy just as the police lie in the game of prisoner with detainees. Indian people know a lot about being lied to on paper as a strategy. Cultures, cultural difference and culture lag. Anyway when I had lunch with Larry and Linda at the local hamburger shack, Larry looked at Linda and said simply: "Junior's on the table." At that point Linda began to cry. It seems that Junior was a calf that Linda had named on the weekend and the next week Momma butchered it because every woman going out with her son needed to know that you don't turn hamburgers into pets. Culture lag. Now I could see both sides since I had been dealing with culture lag and brutal activities all my life. I remember when the government came into the Navajo sheep herds and slaughtered half of them because they said the Navajo were over grazing. For the government, like Larry's momma, it was a matter of property. For the Navajo it was a matter of relationship. Navajos don't sleep with sheep anymore than they eat humans, they don't. But they knew and knew the personalities of every sheep in their considerable herds. They did name them and thanked them for the gift of the wool and prayed for their souls when they gave up their lives for meat on the table to feed their families. They would say that they would honor the spirit of the sheep and work to be a good person with the gift from the sheep. It is a part of all of the Native traditions, I personally know, that it is prayed that when our times comes that we will pass as gracefully as did the sheep or the deer, in the case of a Pueblo Indians. There are strict rules to preserve what Cherokees call: "The way of right relationship" with all of life on the planet. But the American government, representative of all of the American people, thought that such processes were quaint but irrelevant. They just came in and killed half of the sheep persons being kept by the local Navajos and compensated the "owners" with whatever they believed would replace them. Jobs. They replaced the sheep with jobs in the Uranium Mines where all of the miners died from the poison and the kids got cancer from swimming in the tailing ponds. Like they lied on my reservation about the danger in those ponds from heavy metals, they lied in Arizona and New Mexico as well. Culture lag. REH From: futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:08 AM To: ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] robots in the operating room "The days of picking up a scalpel in your hand and operating will soon be history." Domo arigato Dr. Roboto: How robots are creating lasting benefits in the operating room <http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/smart-shift/fp/Robots+create+lasting+ benefits+operating+room/8547942/story.html?__lsa=41a1-f821> Calgary Herald Robotic surgery has also become a major focal point for the team at The Ottawa Hospital. It has expanded the approach even further through a standardized workflow process that encompasses multidisciplinary team members. "It's all managed and standardized under one [specialty-trained] system team, from nursing to perioperative care," explains Dr. Michael Fung-Kee-Fung, a gynecological oncologist who helped bring the da Vinci robot to the hospital. "We have one of the fastest growing robotics programs in Canada because of that."
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