permaculture

[German Poleo <gpoleo@agctr.lsu.edu>]

Hi
I have been in the academy type of environment for more than 10 years, and I 
can tell
you that one of the most difficult people to change are Scientist. Although 
science
should not be dogmatic by definition, is the place where you find more 
opposition to
new ideas.

It is true that this counterculture thing that was suggested before has also 
something
to do with the opposition,
One day I was talking with an agriculture professor and at some point I 
mention
permaculture. His answer was “… ohh yea this thing driven by a bunch of 
hippies…”

Scientist usually looks thing in a very narrow perspective, it is very 
difficult to
find some one that integrate things and has a more holistic point of view.  
It is also
true, at least for me, that science as many other human activities, has 
become just
another job, people is doing it not for getting new information or developed 
new ideas
or as a part of their lives but just as another way to support them self.
I only have meet one or two scientist in my life that incorporate what they 
studies in
they regular lives, and of coure they where the most interesting and smarter 
I have
ever meet.

German

 I want to apologies about my English and I hope I could express my thought 
in an
organized and understandable way.