Tuesday, November 25, 2008

New President, new perceptions.

A new column at "America in the World" suggests that the new regime in America will be more "environment-friendly" than the outgoing administration. This perception, in turn, may give the US a "world-friendly" outlook which stands to be reciprocated by the Europeans and others. But--given the economic conditions, there simply will not be a lot of attention paid to big enviro initiatives for the foreseeable future. We'll see, however.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Oh, and one more thing...

Here's the reflection from last week, per request.

Article link: http://www.primitivism.com/facets-myth.htm

If that should happen not to work, just google the title and author: "The Myth of Progress" by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Here's the question: Comment on the article in the light of his quoting of Herbert Read, "Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines; only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them."