Re: GBlist: Whose Globalization?

[Racheli and John <jnpalme@ibm.net>]

** Reply to note from "chalice" <chalice@wco.com> Sat, 27 May 2000 08:01:21 -0700
>From Racheli

Chalice wrote, in part:   

> In the city, clever creatures that we are, we live almost exclusively in our
> HEADS--without ever really knowing it. We live to the RHYTHM OF MACHINES.
> Concrete and commerce surround us on all sides. We spend most of our time
> working and watching TV.

Who is "we"?
I barely watch TV, and as to working - shouldn't you differentiate 
in regards to what kind of work people do?  You seem to make such sweeping
generalizations.
   
   
> I conclude more than ever that connecting with our natural selves by
> spending significant time in nature, such as in a temperate rainforest, IS
> the closest thing we'll come to a panacea for our personal neuroses, and, by
> extension, for the ills of our society.

I haven't noticed that people who spend much time in the "forest" are
necessarily better at resolving conflict; treating other people well,
etc.  It seems that just as often they are hung up on having their egos
stroked, and whatnot.
In addition, how is being in the forest going to help eliminate most of 
society's ills?  Will nuclear weapons disappear on their
own while all of us gazed at some magnificant trees, or how exactly
does it work???  
Besides, if all 6 billion of us stepped into the forest, what will be left of it?

R.

  
 


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