primalmommy on tue 20 apr 04
Lee Love wrote:
>Wendell Berry speaks about how technocrats in our society
>control us, by making us Dependant upon their expertise in his book,
>_Standing By Words._ Don't depend on the experts but like David
>encourages us, take it upon yourself to know for yourself:
OK, Lee, so I should trust Wendell Berry on this one, because he is an
expert, and he wrote a book, so he must know, right? ;0)
Yours,
Kelly in Ohio
(A Wendell Berry fan, in fact)
pondering all the great questions of the clayart universe, like:
If I fry an egg on a sidewalk for which cement has been colored using
oxides, is the concrete food safe?
Why does Lisa's chicken like tobogganing? And doesn't she live down
south anyway?
Can inhaling uncalcined EPK give you Mad Potter's disease? Because that
would explain a lot..
(Off to make a 50/50 blend of peanut butter and jelly..)
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Lisa Skeen on tue 20 apr 04
Um...tha'd be GINNY in the toboggan. When Summer was a baby, she pecked Ginny right square in the cornea and we
spent a weekend with the eyedoctor. She has been very wary of birds near the face ever since.
L. P. Skeen http://www.living-tree.net
Living Tree Pottery
Summerfield, NC
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: another expert selling a book?
> From: "primalmommy"
> Why does Lisa's chicken like tobogganing? And doesn't she live down
> south anyway?
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Lisa Skeen on tue 20 apr 04
Um....is that a line blend, or a triaxial blend?
L. P. Skeen http://www.living-tree.net
Living Tree Pottery
Summerfield, NC
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: another expert selling a book?
> From: "primalmommy"
> (Off to make a 50/50 blend of peanut butter and jelly..)
Lee Love on wed 21 apr 04
On 2004/04/20 22:27:29, Kelly wrote:
> OK, Lee, so I should trust Wendell Berry on this one, because he is an
> expert, and he wrote a book, so he must know, right? ;0)
Experts?. I don't believe anybody said we should avoid
experts. At Ft. Knox, I qualified as Expert with the M16, but only
Sharpshooter with grenades. Always thought it strange to be a grenade
"Sharpshooter."
Technocrat and expert are two different things. Berry
understands language and uses it to help folks understand some old
values that are being thrown out with the washwater.
Here are some of his essays. They don't tell you how to think, but
they sure do make you think;
http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~ikiru/sustain.html
"Thoughts in the Presence of Fear"
and here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/togeika/20833.html
"A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United
States of America"
From my examinations, He is one of the few people I'd pull
up stakes and move to study with.
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
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