Message-ID: <19991204010750.AAA8699@jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca@LOCALNAME> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:15:24 -04 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: Transferring Environment-Related Technologies To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Douglas,> Why should farmers whose lives are grounded in a substantial and
> palpable (if technologically austere) physical reality, accept
> concepts and goals unrelated to their paradigm, simply because foreign
> businessmen who themselves have lost their own traditions and become
> abstracted by the promotion of discrete processes more related to
> their own aspirations and incomplete preconceptions, have failed to
> give importance to these farmers perceptions?
Equally interesting is the question why exponents of a substantial and technologically affluent physical reality should suppose that concepts and goals should be accepted simply because they are related to *their paradigm. Isnt it is this disjunction between 'farmer' and 'businessman' (more than 'lost traditions') which needs to be understood? In other words, why isnt 'development' more nearly an equal trade in psycho- social -- not to mention economic -- terms?
kerry