From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 02:58:58 BST
Case, Ant
Your points were well presented. You both echoed the sentiment by Jerry
Mander in his book:
In the absence of the sacred: the failure of technology and the survival
of the Indian nations.
IMHO, the only benefit we've had over the last 200 years is modern
dentistry and medicine. As for the quality of life as a whole, and I mean
the social aspect of us humans getting together to break bread, share a
drink and sing a song, things have gone backward.
That's why to this day, the most precious moments spent in an office, are
around the water cooler.
take care
Khaled
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:15:27 -0400 "Case" <Case@iSpots.com> writes:
> Thank you, Ant
> This post was met with a silence matched only by the reponse to my
> Ghost
> Dance post. Platt's belated reply to your comments was predicatable
> and can
> be summarized as: "Buncha damn Hippies"
> One can account for the hedonism criticism of the 60s by noting that
> the
> boomers were the first generation of people on this planet to find
> themselves immune from all of the really bad stuff that plagued
> their ancestors. Most diseases had cures, pregancy was not the
invitable
> consequence of sex, wars were reduced to "police actions" and
> poverty had been bought to historically low levels in the developed
countries.
> I am tempted to credit this to the good auspices of liberal control
> of most institutions but the point is that for a brief moment anything
> seemed possible. There was a recognition that many of the reasons we
had
> assumed for behaving as we had been were no longer valid and other
> justifications would have to be found. Until they were, heck, let's
party.
> Nevertheless, there was an strong undercurrent of spirituality to much
of that
> hedonism
> and it was the first time at least since Hesse that eastern ideas
> received a popular hearing in the west.
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