Hi Janet,
Of course is the paradox of our time negative and cynical.  We (as a
civilisation) are making all these mistakes in our haste to make life
easier/better/more modern etc.
It is sad that we are losing all the good that we have as a trade-off,
without realising it.
The point I tried to make is that the people not trying to keep up with the
Jones' - staying behind and backwards, so to speak - are not being affected
by this and are keeping all of that which we have lost.  They still know
everything about communication etc without having to go to
classes/college/symposia/shrinks.
Another view could be that modern civilisation have evolved and engineered
and advanced itself backwards.
This all is also, of course, a very coarse generalisation.  The Paradox of
our time was not written as a factual study, but as a warning to what we can
have happen if we do not take time to stop and smell the roses.

Gerrit Kleynscheldt

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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   janet paterson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Monday, July 05, 1999 2:27 PM
        To:     [log in to unmask]
        Subject:        Re: Non PD, Paradox of our time / perception again

        hi all

        At 10:12 1999/07/05 +0200, gerrit wrote:
        >Nina,
        >Absolutely beautiful.
        >I have sent & E-mailed this to all I could think of.
        >I have realised long ago that people living the simple (backward)
        >way of life seems to understand the essence of life much better.
        They will say that the city dweller smiles with his mouth, but not
        >with his eyes, etc. They raise their children with proper values
        >and these children have happiness - in their relationships and life
        >in general.   Somehow they know more about psychology than the
majority
        >of scholars of that area. So these that you sent are wise words
indeed!
        >Regards. Gerrit Kleynscheldt

        yikes
        i went back to read it again
        and found it sadly negative and cynical
        full of sweeping negative generalisations
        and that good ole 'black/white' simplistic way of looking at things

        odd
        how we perceive the same words in such different ways

        janet

        janet paterson
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