Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Thought control

Check out this new video - a remake of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall

with a twist - "you don't need an education to save the planet" ... in fact today's educational system is designed in such a way that our thinking about problem-solving and how we meet our needs will continue to destroy natural & social systems until we radically alter our way of thinking - so we all certainly need learning to make it happen. In the meantime - do the easy stuff in your homes, or these kids will do it for you...

Stay going.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

First, it's always a shock to see how "uneducated" people like the commenter above react so violently (and rudely) to the notion that the way we educate ourselves keeps us on the path of ecological overshoot (and in denial).
Second, it's worth asking if sustainability education, which might put more of us in a position to evaluate where we're headed, is possible (or could ever be allowed) within a capitalist unlimited-growth economic paradigm. Otherwise: is unsustainability an ecological self-regulatory mechanism that puts unsustainable species (in our case, us) on the path of collapse as a re-balancing measure?
Ecology tends to avoid such unpleasant questions. But it's worth considering.
The "funnel" model might be one way to help reverse some of our speed down the path to mutually assured ecological destruction.
Keep up the good work.