Yellow River: Faustian lock-in

2001-06-27 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
By the *third century BC* the wonderful world of the Yang-shao farmers and Lungshan peasants living peacefullly together and practicing an extensive system of cultivation, i.e, shifting or slash and burn agriculture, with only a rudimentary degree of social stratification, had long been

Yellow River: Faustian lock-in?

2001-06-25 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Marshall Berman on Faust 'The Developer' Suddenly Faust springs up enraged: Why should men let things go on being the way they have always been? Isn't it about time for mankind to assert itself against nature's tyrannical arrogance, to confront natural forces in the name of 'the free spirit