9 May
2013
9 May
'13
11:09 a.m.
right on. the free flow of information these days is really helping with this process.
people are documenting and sharing so much - an incalculable volume of garbage but also a
huge volume of really good info and ideas that people are freely adopting - as long as
people exercise a little bit of critical thinking before adopting and/or reposting to the
hive, the collective filter mechanism to reject dishonest language and harmful behaviors
from their cultural sphere of influence and promote the positive is getting stronger on
the daily.
cheers
May 9, 2013 04:17:23 AM, alcides888(a)gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to re-enter "allow" vs. the "persuade." I believe
philosophies should not be forced upon people. Instead, I think its more awesome to invite
someone into your home and see how you live vs. urging lifestyles onto others. Your guests
can adopt what they want. This may increase the chance of failure, but may also increase
the chance of free will for whatever audience. I believe thats a good thing.
I dont think working to change language, protocols, or social structures is a bad idea
-IF- the developers are mindful to 'allow' people to adopt what they want and not
'persuade' people to follow their lead.
Alcides Gutierrez
http://e64.us
On May 9, 2013 12:52 AM, "GtwoG PublicOhOne" g2g-public01(a)att.net> wrote:
Romy, Yos-
Good example. Also an example of what
happens when power is wielded
without checks & balances, by people who are so enamored of a
theory that it obscures the real world.
The Khmer Rough also routinely slaughtered
or interned &
tortured anyone found wearing glasses, because they believed that
glasses were a sign of an attempt to assert status by the
intellectual and technical classes. But the fact is that by middle
age, almost all men and probably at least a majority of women
require the use of glasses to read and perform other short-distance
visual tasks. That inconvenient fact didn't get in the way of the
Khmer Rouge's theory.
Everyone reading this email is a member of
the "intellectual and
technical class," even if a large plurality of us are living on
working class income or less. And the vast majority of us are going
to live long enough to need glasses. Fortunately none of us has the
power to compel any of us to use words a certain way, even though we
can & do argue (as peers) about that.
-G.
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On 13-05-08-Wed 10:21 PM, Romy Ilano
wrote:
There is a yin and a yang to everything.
Here are a few examples of the "dark side" of
reshaping language...
I've read a lot of history about
the Chinese Cultural
Revolution and the Cambodian Khmer Rouge... these groups
were very interested in reforming a corrupt society, finding
new ways of doing things. They are not shining examples but
I can say that their intentions started out pure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_rule_of_Cambodia#Establishing_the_…
On
the surface, society in Democratic Kampuchea was strictly egalitarian.
The Khmer
language, like many in Southeast Asia, has a complex
system of usages to define speakers' rank and social
status. These usages were abandoned. People were
encouraged to call each other "friend", or "comrade"
(in
Khmer, មិត្ដ mitt), and to avoid traditional signs of
deference such as bowing or folding the hands in
salutation.
Language
was transformed in other ways. The Khmer Rouge invented
new terms. People were told they must "forge" (lot dam)
a new revolutionary character, that they were the
"instruments" (opokar) of the Angkar, and that
nostalgia for pre-revolutionary times (chheu satek arom,
or "memory sickness") could result in their receiving
Angkar's "invitation" to be deindustrialised and to live
in a concentration camp.
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