----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't agree. I am working with a religious group of peace activists > who have been amazed at the things I tell them about how our political > process works and who are hungry for more information --- they even > want me to write a pamphlet about how politics works in this country > and the barriers to democracy we face. =================== They are amazed *precisely* because of the modes of communications that has pacified them into understading next to nothing about the IPE. Learned ingnorance. Your formatting of mutual education is probably sufficiently novel as compared to the manner in which they've learned stuff about the world in formal and semi-formal group gatherings all their lives that all of you have an enormous potential for empowering one another. Go for it! >>here's a tremendous amount of > confusion and misinformation out there that must be countered. > Teaching need not involve a passive audience nor lecturing --- that's > your contribution, not mine. The teaching should be mutual --- I'm > learning a hell of a lot about the practice of organizing a small and > poor peace organization, and they are learning the ABCs of political > economy from me. They are the ones driving the process --- I'm merely > gathering and presenting information to them, and they convince > themselves, ================= I never said teaching need involve passive audience, I'm just saying that is ritualized behavior in too many learning contexts, particularly in the US. As for the rest of the paragraph, Yahoo! :-) > Pissed at whom? At a government that is merely handmaiden to those > with real power? At a few corporate criminals who got caught with > their hands in the cookie jar? Or at the entire structure of greed > which ramrods injustice down their throats and uses their tax dollars > to ram it down the throats of others? > > > Bill =================== All those myriad attitude are distributed throughout the citizenry. How to get those in the first two camps to move to the third is our challenge and adventure....... Ian
