Message-ID: <9608118424.AA842487080@hudsmtphq.hud.gov> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:11:20 EST From: Michael Patterson <mailto:Michael_O._Patterson@HUD.GOV> Subject: Re[2]: motivation for participation in development To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Another way to put it: Why do people care? I think it has a lot to do with feeling that one can do something about a situation. In a word, power (but I fear your library searches won't help much on that keyword either) - and the real question is, if the community itself is not positioned to make competent decisions, *does it care*? --------------------------------------- Propaganda is written to 3 emotions: fear, hate, and hope. Read your newspaper's front page; you'll see articles written to all 3, and some just for information.Hope is the core of all successful development efforts. What generates hope? A belief that one has the power to make changes? I don't know. Whatever we can do to engender hope will make those efforts successful.