To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Genderisms
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:34:05 +0100
Luddite - noun
1. opponent of new technology: somebody who opposes technological or
industrial innovation
2. HISTORY 19thC protester against technology: a worker involved in
protests
in Britain in the 1810s against new factory methods of production and in
favor of traditional methods of work
[Early 19th century. Origin uncertain: according to tradition, named for Ned
Ludd, an 18th-century farm worker in Leicestershire, England, who destroyed
two stocking frames in a fit of rage.]
-----Original Message-----
From: georg parlow [mailto:georg@websuxxess.com]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:14 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: Genderisms
> luddites,
what is that? my dicitionary stares back blankly at me. could anyone please
elucidate me?