September 12, 2007
It's All Good.
I just spent my last dime getting my car tuned, in preparation for The Big Fall Gig at the public utility in a few weeks.
But better I address all that now than when I'm actually depending on those wheels during the commute.
And now I'm going to crash for a few hours before I get up to do a little paperwork and finish up my volunteer nonsense for this month. But one cannot just sleep; not without a book. I just finished The Substance of Style a few days ago, and it was so freakin' good I decided I just had to pick up The Future and Its Enemies again.
I certainly had trouble finding the latter book, though: I checked every pile of juicy readables in the house before finally asking my husband if he'd seen it. It turns out he'd placed it in a . . . what do you call those things? . . . it was in a . . . a bookcase.
The crazy stuff you put up with when you marry someone.
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Do "dynamists" drink from that shy-is-falling global-warming' trough? Agenda driven science or just regular, old, tried-and-true science?
"but ALL* share a devotion to what she calls "stasis," a controlled, uniform society that changes only with permission from some central authority."
WTF! In what hell dimension? Europe? A "bureaucratically engineered future" is just what I'm looking for! When will people ever learn? There's NOBODY in the room smarter than everybody in the free market.
*Emphasis mine.
Posted by: Darrell at September 13, 2007 08:11 PM (Ai1Rx)
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Read the book; I think the blurb you saw oversimplified her argument.
She does in fact make the point that Europeans are much more comfortable with centralized control than Americans.
Also, as an engineer you may have some discomfort to her classifications of the future's "enemies": she refers to them as
reactionaries and
technocrats. But she clearly contrasts her "technocrats" with "techno
philes," who embrace change in its glorious messiness.
The interesting thing is to see her finding hidden pockets of fear-of-change on both the right and the left.
Read the book, D--I really think you'll like it.
Posted by: Attila Girl at September 14, 2007 08:41 AM (bIZMS)
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I have to read something other than a technical article? Isn't there a YouTube version or something? Sigh. . . We'll have to work on a mind meld or something. There are only so many hours in a day.
Posted by: Darrell at September 14, 2007 06:24 PM (XAKd8)
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