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- From: "S.K. Harrison" <skh23ca@yahoo.com>
- To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: cultural myths and misery
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 03:51:40 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rex Teague
Rex, in your post that I quote below, you appear
to be addressing someone else besides me. Exactly
which of my comments do you believe you were
replying to?
I suspect that the measure of your comprehension
of my last post stands in inverse proportion to
the amount of the Korzybski quote that you didn't
chop.
> And science has "proved" mice eat cheese! John
> made a perfectly valid point for me despite
> his "irrationality".
>
> Fritz Schumacher in "A Guide for the Perplexed"
> used education as an example of rationality's
> folly. Take the authority/discipline schooling
> position to the extreme and you have a prison,
> on the other hand the liberal/freedom approach
> in the extreme leads to a madhouse. Ask a
> successful teacher what is the key and the
> answer will be along the lines of "loving the
> little horrors".
>
> Rationalise love?? Love, empathy, participation
> mystique, understanding, compassion are
> faculties that come from a high level of self-
> awareness... Swedenborg's "regeneration". To me
> the rationalist's dichotomy has to be balanced
> with wisdom eg libert=E9 - egalit=E9 -
> fraternit=E9.
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cultural myths and misery,
John Schinnerer, 12/03/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: cultural myths and misery, Simon Kartar, 12/04/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, Brent Ladd, 12/04/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, S.K. Harrison, 12/05/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, S. K. Harrison, 12/05/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, Rex Teague, 12/05/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, S.K. Harrison, 12/06/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, John Schinnerer, 12/06/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, John Schinnerer, 12/06/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, Simon Kartar, 12/06/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, georg parlow, 12/06/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, Rex Teague, 12/06/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, S.K. Harrison, 12/07/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, S.K. Harrison, 12/07/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, S.K. Harrison, 12/07/2001
- Re: cultural myths and misery, S.K. Harrison, 12/07/2001
- RE: cultural myths and misery, souscayrous, 12/07/2001
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