From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: Out of Control
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:08:51 -0500
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:34:40 -0500 (EST), "S.K. Harrison"
<skh23ca@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Mollison talks about similar themes in the
>designer's manual when he discusses pattern and
>tribal knowledge. If I can remember, he asks us
>to consider first the inability of many
>contemporary people to retain knowledge. And this
I don't know how he can say something like this.
Start with an interest in permaculture; collect literature
and learn, synthesize and put it to work in one's life;
go online and collect more information (mostly free),
learn even more, gain expertise. Seems many tens of thousands of
people are doing this every year.
This is not retaining knowledge?
>because our knowledge takes the form of vast
>numbers of words, numbers and other symbols
>stored in huge print and electronic
>databanks--often requiring specialized knowledge
>just to access, let alone commit to memory. By
That is a very inadequate and short-sighted view
of electronic information collection, management and retreival.
I note that he has no detectable online presense.