Hi Molly-
I am not sure whether you are responding to my ps (de but definitly PRESSING)
or the main note. Assuming the former (and hearing family coming in the door)
I am not sure what to think. On the one hand, I greatly admire Dewey and
know he was read by LSV, and the quotation is thought provoking. On the
second hand, I really mourn the face that I do not have the capacity to
follow over long periods of time the kids I work with. Part of the problem
is technical/ethical (Ashcroft and W may solve that problem-- but not for
me-- I'll be on the inside of the fence). But part is practical. I spend
outrageous amounts of time in a combination of environmental desigh and
documentation (aka re-search). Followup/longitudinal study over decades
was not something the importance of which I understood when I started (and
got money) and now is something for which there is a very specifiable and
fascinating convergence of interests to extinguish ( no money, but feel free!).
My guess? If some humans could live 10,000 years and be supported to pursue
the same objects of inquiry in dialogue with heterorchronous others, we
might be able to make progress.
Meanwhile, hermit crab-like, I rejoice that I was found crawling out of
my shell and returned to the sea by sympathetic shell hunters.
mike
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