few more quotes... * The Masked Philosopher (2)* Curiosity is a vice that has been stignatised in urn by Christianity, by philosophy, and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity is seen as futility.however I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me.It evokes 'care'; it eveokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist;a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilised before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd;a cetain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at the same things in a different way;a passion for seizing what is happening nowand what is disappearing;a lack of respect for the traditional hierarchies of what is important and fundamental. I dream of a new age of curiosity.We have the technical means;the desire is there;there is an infinity of things to know;the people capable of doing such work exist.So what is our problem?Too little:channels of communication that are too narrow, almost monopolistic,inadequate.
...It is understandable that some people should weep over the present void and hankr instead , in the world of ideas , after a little monarchy.But for those who , for once in their lives , have found a new tone, a new way of looking, a new way of doing, those people, i believe, will never feel the need to lament that the world is error, that history is filled with people of no consequence, and that it is time for others to keep quite so that at last the sound of their disapproval may be heard... ( Essential wworks of Michel Foucault: Ethics:pp 321--328) -- Dileep R I thuravoor .. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
