Am I the only one who finds it ironic that this was communicated over a computer network founded and sustained for years by the US Department of Defense? That relies on the highest industrial technology imaginable? That it was published originally in a magazine based in New York City, where none of these nostrums really apply? That it has been spread to people around the world courtesy of all these supposedly destructive technologies? Or should I take this in a Hegelian spirit - that the hand that made the wound is the one that will heal it? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 7 Jan 1995, William Myers wrote: > > "Understand that there can be no successful human economy apart from Nature > or in defiance of Nature. Understand that no amount of education can > overcome the innate limits of human intelligence and responsibility. We are > not smart enough or conscious enough or alert enough to work responsibly on > a gigantic scale. > > In making things always bigger and more centralized, we make them both more > vulnerable in themselves and more dangerous to everything else. Learn, > therefore, to prefer small-scale elegance and generosity to large-scale > greed, crudity and glamour. > > Make a home. Help to make a community. Be loyal to what you have made. Put > the interest of the community first. > > Love your neighbors--not the neighbors you pick out, but the ones that you > have. Love this miraculous world that we did not make, that is a gift to us. > > As far as you are able make your lives dependent upon your local place, > neighborhood, and household--which thrive by care and generosity--and > independent of the industrial economy, which thrives by damage. > > Find work, if you can, that does no damage. Enjoy your work. Work well." > > Wendell Berry . The futility of global thinking. HARPER'S MAGAZINE > (September): 16-22,1989 > >
