sorry to hear about the wrist injury John: hope the gardening's good.
On population: 1. if you're right, abandoning the one-child family policy may
be the most significant political decision of the first part of the century -
both the policy and its termination might appear autocratic? 2. is the
More probably the shirt wearer was expressing himself ironically. But maybe he
couldn’t press it because he lacked an ironing board. Does everyone here lack
one too?
Best,
Michael via iPhone, so please ecuse misteaks.
> On Sep 5, 2021, at 11:27 AM, Vincent Gaulin
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--I literally saw a guy in a cafe with a tee-shirt that read "I can't hear
you -- over the sound of my freedom."
I think it's important to keep in mind that "speech acts" of this kind are
mimetic and consumption oriented, rather than arising from some kind of
self-made ethic. Just like on social m
I tend to agree with you, Sean, about the huge problems caused by some threads
of systems thinking and engineering that arose in the bowels of the
Military-academic-industrial complex. However, there are other threads
(i.e.,James Miller, Howard Odum) that have taken a far-wider view that
acknow
I am in agreement with:
“that this accident must become our necessity, a necessity whose impure
technological, but also social, economic and political conditions are alone
what make possible the exercise of collective intelligence, belief, wisdom and
decision. The temptation is always to say tha
Sean wrote.
engineering as management is what got us into this mess..
Exactly.
Common sense says the world wants to be free as in free beer
Or a free lunch, which doesn’t exist either.
Reciprocity is a better term, and the family of concepts around it: the
commons, the social, a new social
'A new socialism that embraces the non-human' - I like it. But to what
extent would it still be socialism? Can socialism accommodate such a
nondualist, nonseperablist ontological framing? Or does it require
transforming socialism almost out of all recognition by imagining it
very differently?
