Dear Barry: I have been missing your clear voice of reason for a long time. I have always liked your idea of durability and though to a degree, like Jay Hanson's focus, it seems like a narrow focus and after awhile gets deleted from the consciousness. There have been a number of consistent posters who have held a theme in front of the rest of us, sometimes to our slight shame. Forgetting, at this late hour the gentlemans name, there was a poster with a strong theme of monopoly, in fact it kept intruding on our consciousness so much we banned him - interesting. A lot of what he said has been paraphrased by others, as well as coming true in front of our eyes via Microsoft. The only difference was his contention, as I remember, that no monopoly charges would come up because the Dept in Charge (forget name) had no will to prosecute even though there were laws on the books. Your ideas of durability cut right to the heart of problem - and yet your solution has the same problem as other good ideas like Direct Democracy, the sheer inertia of the current system seems hardly to respond. Or is it inertia? On todays E mail came a lengthy article by Susan George and the power of ideas and on Graffis, there was a detailed expose on the dioxin scare in Belgium. Both these articles presented compelling descriptions of how good ideas get pooh poohed away in various ways. Your idea and it's accompaning explanation is so powerful that it should be quoted much like Garret Hardin's metaphor of the Commons - a simple explantion that has within the seeds of really solving some major problems. Anyway, the hours late and I liked your essay a lot. Respectully, Thomas Lunde ---------- From: "Barry Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "futurework" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Durability as a means of conservation... Date: Thu, Jul 15, 1999, 5:55 AM Sustainable Economics |
Title: Re: Durability as a means of conservation...
- Durability as a means of conservation... Barry Brooks
- Durability as a means of conservation... Barry Brooks
- Re: Durability as a means of conservation... Thomas Lunde
- Re: Durability as a means of conservation..... Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
- Re: Durability as a means of conservati... tom abeles
- Re: Durability as a means of conservation... Tom Walker
- Re: Durability as a means of conservation... Thomas Lunde