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August 13, 2009
A quote from Tony Fry from this text:
Observing the past critically requires an enormous amount of attention if we are concerned about the future. To do this in a culture that displays an almost unceasing capability to erase memory (or to technogically reduce it to bits of information) is to go against the grain. The purpose of such 'critical history' is not to moralise with hindsight but to learn what to destroy, conserve and remake - it is not just that we need to learn from history, but rather without the historical, learning is always followed by forgetting. One can even say, without history there is no ability to sustain (which, as indicated, in large part is the selection of the future from the past)
It has taken a long time to accumulate all the ‘stuff’ that blocks our path to sustainment, and it’s going to take a long time to selectively eliminate it. Obviously this is no mere mechanical exercise but one that requires constructive acts of ‘clearing’, allowing us to identify what really matters to us so we may be sustained symbolically, intellectually and physically.
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Yes indeed. Knowledge + expeience = understanding x n (time) = wisdom.
Our western culture has developed several 'avoidant' traits. Open discussion and analysis is avoided because it may be offensive (to some), challenging to cultural norms of worth, and self views.
Thankyou for making me think.