Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961008100615.9732J-100000@fox.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 10:14:07 -0500 From: kerry miller <mailto:astingsh@KSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Appropriate Technology To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Mike, Even tho it looks as if your message got chopped, you have addressed just the point I want to make: in fact, everything is in a context, and it is only our cultural value of _objectivity_ that lets us think we can 'take' an object 'alone.'kerry ====================== On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Michael Patterson wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I would like to jump into the fray with a suggestion about the 'goodness'
> and 'badness' of technology. My view is that an inanimate object cannot
> be alone be taken as good or bad, but when viewed within a context it
> becomes one of those. For example, much of the touted 'technological'
> advance were built with a purpose in mind, with a specific goal, and it is
> those goals which I believe need to be re-examined. If all of the energy
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> A major value is expressed right here. In many indigenous
> cultures, there is absolutely no concept of an "inanimate
> object".
>