sorry to barge in...
anonymous
August 20 2010, 17:00:12 UTC
Anne, I am looking for a post you made (spring?) about overpopulation; you were pointing to an article written from the point of view that... if I recall correctly, if people scaled down their resource use, it would not be such an acute problem. I think Ran pointed me to it, and now I cannot see the link at either Ran's site or here. Yelp!
Haaaa, I had a feeling as soon as it started that the "series of lectures" was going to be the Masseys. Have you heard the 2009 ones by Wade Davis, called The Wayfinders? Ronald Wright's 2004 series on "A Short History of Progress" was pretty relevant to the topic as well.
CBC's actually gotten really good about posting its stuff online lately, actually, and even the streaming episodes are pretty easy to save with the right Firefox extension. This one about meat-eating is pretty interesting too.
If there is a way forward, it will have to dispense with the mechanistics of classical or romantic undestandings of "the mind" and focus instead on what we know about human cognition and behavior, viewed, as Lessing suggests, as clearly and dispassionately as we view the behavior of other species. Wasn't that precisely Skinner's project in Walden Two? He makes the same point (in the updated foreword) about how the advertising psychologists are doing it already, too, and that was back in the 70's.
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Burke, Rousseau...
Bakunin v. Marx...
What about Freud, Skinner, Bernays, versus Reich, Esalen, Fritz Perls, EST, etc ?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126#
love and rage,
wolfbird
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Still can't read Russian yet :-)
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Thank you.
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CBC's actually gotten really good about posting its stuff online lately, actually, and even the streaming episodes are pretty easy to save with the right Firefox extension. This one about meat-eating is pretty interesting too.
If there is a way forward, it will have to dispense with the mechanistics of classical or romantic undestandings of "the mind" and focus instead on what we know about human cognition and behavior, viewed, as Lessing suggests, as clearly and dispassionately as we view the behavior of other species.
Wasn't that precisely Skinner's project in Walden Two? He makes the same point (in the updated foreword) about how the advertising psychologists are doing it already, too, and that was back in the 70's.
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