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Re: What is permaculture?
- To: permaculture
- Subject: Re: What is permaculture?
- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 12:59:02 -0500
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- Organization: Venaura Farm
- References: <LISTMANAGER-136455-36376-2001.12.23-11.02.45--jko#save-net.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu> <140121@permaculture>
- Reply-to: lflondon@mindspring.com
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:12:04 -0800, jeff owens <jko@bctonline.com>
wrote:
>Is it possible we have trouble describing Pc because of our
>assumptions and cultural conditioning? Chomsky once remarked
>that we have language to describe things our culture understands.
>But ideas that do not fit very well are difficult to describe and
>often require adjustments to language and thinking.
.... require reflection, meditation and solutions borne out of
creative insight on our part, all methods that are mostly indefinable
>These thoughts lead me to the conclusion that how we ask
>a questions is often more important than their answers.
Goebbels seemed to like that approach
> Control the questions and you control thinking.
Goebbels again, and Stalin too, probably Mao, Saddam Hussain
and Pol Pot as well
> Anyway, that is the
>reasoning behind my original comment. A simplier way to
>say it might be: One reason we have trouble describing
>Pc is due to the assumptions in thinking and questions.
>
>jeff
>
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