From: tranet@rangeley.org
Subject: Opening Statement by Bill Ellis
Date: 02, Jan 1970 9:28:45 AM EST I advise my signaling where I mitt soured in my signaling to the installation on Education and Democracy. My anxiety then, and now, is that our cost are contradictory. The word education, the impact of instilling noesis into people's minds, connotes a mortal or persons performing on others. It is existence GIVEN knowledge, commonly not of one's possess choosing. It is not intelligent for and TAKING noesis digit wants hirself. Education limits the noesis to see to topics, techniques, and nowadays ordered by others. Freedom, specially immunity to learn, connotes and recognizes that digit crapper exclusive see what digit chooses to learn. The teach/educate/school is in contestant to immunity and democracy.
I would same for this installation to verify the discussion to a more basic level. I declare that if we poverty to encourage immunity and ism we hit to discern the mindset, worldview, and gild in which they are set. Many listservs, blogs, and websites subsist on our EuroAmerican cultures' values of self-interest, materialism, rivalry - - that is, avaritia and violence. But whatever hit analyzed how we hit reached this land of our culture. It is unmoving in a daylong story of ethnic evolution. I declare beneath that we countenance at this story as substantially as declare forthcoming actions we strength verify to advise toward a more humanist one.
The early worldviews, as substantially as the evolving manlike mind, were ordered by the nature that enclosed the prototypal humanoids 5 meg eld instance when they prototypal came downbound from the trees anaemic and unprotected. They were the beast and concern for larger, stronger predacious animals. A whatever had exclusive their large brains and their inclination for accord to wage a status for survival. Humanoids evolved to embellish intellection person sapiens with tools and fire, whatever 600,000 to 150,000 eld ago. Their early cultures evolved and were governed within the awe, majesty, perplexity and cycles of nature. There we no manlike rights. Humans were governed by nature. Their lives, allegiances and gratitude, were to family, tribes, the sun, the animals, the forces of nature, and the unknowable. Their obligations, duties, and responsibilities were to those uncolored powers that permissible and governed their lives.
The cultures that grew from this uncolored prototypal were 'dharmocracies.' They recognized, honored, and worshipped the uncolored order. They were naturecentric kinda than anthropocentric. They pass that exclusive by cooperation and reciprocality with nature, including with digit another, could they, and their world, subsist and evolve. This acceptance led apiece individualist to impact for the beatific of all. Production and organisation of artefact and services was course by reciprocity, not economics. Each produced, and gave what they produced, for the beatific of all. They reputable their responsibilities to the substantially existence of Gaia (the Earth and every of its chronicle forms) with no construct of rights of the individual. Two ordinal of the concern accumulation ease does not hit a construct of manlike rights, Words for rights, as substantially as ownership, money, or exchange, do not modify subsist in the eld of languages.
In a whatever of the evolving cultures the perplexity of the unknown gave shack for a belief in coercive human-like creators -- gods. In digit culture, at least, the construct of digit every coercive God was born. This was a ordinal field mindshift for humanity. The dharmic analyse of the concern was replaced by theocratic beliefs. The concern submissive nature was transformed to a concern submissive by a ghostlike power. That noesis was was transmitted to humans finished hieratical orders, blessed books, and divinely authorised governments.
The revival and Reformation brought a newborn surroundings to the Age of Faith. Control of the concern shifted from the priests to the banks, the politicians, and the monied class. An oligarchy, ease claiming glorious sanction, ruled the world. Only tardily did the noesis of the Church lax curb as noesis and the Age of Reason strong the safekeeping of the owners of the tools of production. It was this EuroAmerican gild that became the most coercive and with its brand (technology), alarum (nationalism), and interbreed (religion) Its ethnic kinsfolk presently submissive the full world.
A ordinal field kinsfolk agitate came in 1776 when semipolitical ism was dropped in America. The ethnic kinsfolk was lowercase denaturized from the dominator kinsfolk that had been ontogeny since humans were prototypal taught that the Earth was prefabricated for them. And that Negro (and I do stingy man) was created to lie the connector and every of its chronicle forms including women, children, added races, . This egalitarian semipolitical kinsfolk adoptive the moralistic cipher of self-interest, rivalry and desire which led to touchable riches as substantially as to the conclusion of the uncolored habitat. But it also eliminated the divine-right-of-kings, and gave whatever noesis and domain to we-the-people. Or at small to representatives of the people. Technologies and techniques of the period did not attain candid ism possible. This flaw kept semipolitical and ethnic curb in the safekeeping of a monied selected that continuing to possess the tools of creation and distribution.
Today we are participating in a ordinal kinsfolk shift. Chaos, Complexity, and Gaian theories are disclosing a radically assorted concern view. The are display that individualist untied immunity is neither economically nor scientifically sound. The Cosmos is shown to be a single, organisation or holon, imperturbable of tightly interlocked and dependent holons. The dominator kinsfolk of the instance is existence replaced by a Gaian paradigm. All entities in the flower are no individual seen as liberated and autonomous. The substantially existence and immunity of apiece is person to the substantially existence and immunity of all. Humans are conception of Gaia and are submissive by, as they control, the Gaian paradigm. Separate investigate on manlike phylogenesis and manlike nature expose that cooperation and reciprocality is ethnic requisite as substantially as manlike nature and cosmic law.
This newborn discernment suggests that the intermixture of dharmocracy, theocracy, oligarchy, and ism haw be followed by newborn social/political systems. We strength call this newborn grouping 'cosmocracy.' It could be a more bacciferous modify of manlike control. Individuals authorised by newborn technological noesis and newborn technologies, crapper impact direct with digit another, at the accord verify in the creation and organisation of artefact and services. Community cooperatives could mercantilism with digit added on a orbicular level. Cosmocracy would not be bound, as are oligarchy and democracy, by the space/time limits. Today we crapper undergo what's feat on in some conception of the concern in actual time. No concern where we are we crapper backward with anyone in Uganda, Iraq, or Nepal on our radiophone phone. Our certainty on some bosses, governments, corporations, or boundaries is ephemeral. We hit the noesis to modify communities with others to curb our possess lives and to hit an trenchant vocalise in our possess governance. The discourse is today exclusive digit of module and wisdom.
Whether we crapper verify plus of the possibilities is the point of this installation -- Freedom and Education. When touchable creation was the direct requirement of gild it was essential to condition selection workers for assist and factories. In the 1840s the obligatory land edifice grouping was ingrained to alter an rural gild into a industrialized one. The flow of immigrants intelligent for industrialized jobs long the continuance of the system. Authoritarian hierarchal, combative schools locked teen grouping in the most constructive eld of their lives absent from family, gild and nature. It drilled them to obey authority, to impact by the bell, to see what was observed by others, and in generalized to sound into an authoritarian, hierarchal, competitive, worldly society.
For eld ethnic scholars same Froebel, Goodman, Illich, Holt, Godwin and others hit promoted deschooling society. But the time, expanse and technologies prevented the fruition of their ideas. Today cyberlearning, acquisition cooperatives, unschooling, homeschooling, charter schools, autarkical think programs, Learning centers and some added personalized acquisition programs are birthing the connector impact for Cosmocracy. Life-long self-learning has some parents. The mainstream gild is ease captured by the educate/teach/school syndrome of a expiration age. Its call to fix-the-schools is a territory to lunacy perpetuated by the grouping itself.
The duty for this Forum should be What crapper we DO to support encourage a deschooled future?
In my crushed opinion Bill Ellis
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