Re: on the brink

From: N (vygotsky@charter.net)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 14:42:46 PST


NO. That would be a diasaster. Something like expanding the PeaceCorps
would be much better.

Mike Cole wrote:
> Jay-- How about he sends all the troops to Afghanistan to rebuild the
> intrastructure of that country and learn what life is like for people
> elsewhere? The 16 million people dying of starvation on the horn of
> African could use some help too.
>
> Then there are many thousands of us schools in horrible physical shape,
> how about fixing them up?
>
> health care for poor kids and their parents might give some great
> on the job training for a lot of people.
>
> If he uses domestic airlines to cart people around, he might bolster their
> bottom line and keep us from becoming totally monopolized.
>
> Then we could start a giant "donate you SUV" program and create protective
> reefs for many species of endangered fish while delight sport fishermen.
>
> FYI Erlbaum seems caught in a web of its own technological making. We are
> contacting the author of the to-be-discussed article to see if we can get
> a doc version for discussion.
>
> Meantime, no thanks to me, there is a wonderful discussion going on in the
> mediational theories of mind class.
> mike
>
>

-- 
“There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty 
realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach 
of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the 
naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to 
go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of 
the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary 
to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social 
history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it".
A.R Luria

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