Fwd: Re: Propositions

["William K. Medlin" <dev-plan@moscow.com>]

Dear Visionaries: This ancient tid-bit of wisdom may find a welcome 
among some of you; if not, my apologies. It's not my habit to load 
the cyber optics with junk. And it isn't very lengthy, but it's 
rather potent. Where is the world headed 2300 years after the Greeks? 
KM

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>From: "James Boyes" <jboyes@ozemail.com.au>
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>  >From James: Aristotle tried to make it clear over 2000 years ago that it was
>important to distinguish between economics and chrematistics. Economics is
>derived from words meaning looking after the home, managing everything
>properly. The word ecology has the same origin. Chrematistics is the
>manipulation of assets for short term gain. This is basically what
>anthropocentric societies do. The solution is to become truly efficient. As
>I said we have gross delusions about the efficiency of industrial societies.
>Holistic management is a methodology for achieving the necessary efficiency
>a kind of meta system which can be grafted onto any other operating system
>which most people refer to as a culture. For a simple analogy think of the
>dinosaurs and the mammals. I think anyone can help construct a biocentric
>culture by making choices particularly in the way they buy and invest. Paul
>Hawken has made a huge contribution to this process with his latest book
>Natural Capitalism. Dont be put off by that last word. Ideologies of right
>and left or any kind involve the selective use of information and thus are
>useless. Happy thinking JWB
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