>(1) Are you in Victoria, B.C.?? Have you had any experience with the
>LETSystem up there, Coutenay, M. Linton or E. Yacub?
Indeed I am in Victoria B.C., but I do not know the three individuals listed.
>
>(2) While I favor backyard gardens (don't have a backyard myself), I don't
>believe that at the present stage of social integration they represent a
>viable economic alternative. Many people don't have the time, the space, or
>the appropriate colored thumb. On the otherhand, local farmer's markets for
>produce seem a very viable way to go. Bu
Well, what do people do with their time, when they are not working in
more or less oppressive work situations? These are choices we make in
our lives, other people golf, go to a bar, go on a cruise, watch TV
etc. I don't do any of these but I might stand there watering plants
individually, once or twice a week for a couple of hours...
An alternative here in Victoria to the farmers' markets are some new
forms of organizations that put together boxes of fresh organic
vegetables, local whenever possible, and you pay a flat rate and they
bring you a box once a week.
I think the choices I am writing about above are related to quality
of life. My wife and I, for one, do not think that 'fast food' (or
mal-bouffe as the French say) contributes to quality of life--we
treat ourselves (identity in CHAT!) like engines, like people treat
their cars: fill 'er up, and as fast as possible, please, not waiting.
I am think that growing food and cooking overcomes part of the
fundamental alienation in a modern world--most of the time I don't
even see cash anymore, I work, have plastic and all I see is numbers
on sheets of paper.
I am interested in the whole question of 'identity' in activity
systems and the relation of lived experience, anchored in idem
identity, and the social self, coming out of ipse identity. These, I
somehow think, are related to the issues raised above
Michael
------------------------------------------------------ Wolff-Michael Roth Lansdowne Professor Applied Cognitive Science MacLaurin Building A548 Tel: (250) 721-7885 University of Victoria FAX: (250) 472-4616 Victoria, BC, V8W 3N4 Email: mroth@uvic.ca http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/ ----------------------------------------------------
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