Re: GMO and "the evil you know"

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/speaking-of-old-people-tp7586049p7586057.html

> It's the old war between the Dionysians and the Apollonians, between the
> grasshoppers and the ants.   Your ants and your Apollonians plant tiny
> oaktrees in their lawn, build brick houses, develop communities, because
> they are confident in their ability to make a future.  Your Dionysians grab
> for all the gusto  they can get, having contempt for the possibility of
> making a future.  I can't really argue for one position or the other.
> Either makes sense to me.  What does offend me is when Dionysians represent
> their revelry in Apollonian terms -- as making a better future.   Let the
> technicians invent their toys, play with them, adorn them with skins and
> aps, but don't let them ever claim that they are making progress.  It's just
> what it is, and it will go where it goes, and on balance, we may be happier
> or more miserable because of it.  Real progress, if there is such a thing,
> requires a lot more than innovation.

Nick -

Well said.  My task is similar, centering on the aspect of affecting one
thing
while indulging perhaps in an entirely "other" thing.  But I fear it
might be
even *worse* than that.  The Dionysian Ants espousing the building of a
better future and then proceeding to make a *worse* future (in the long
term)
under the guise of making it better.   Or so it seems.

The *un* in unenlightened self-interest I guess.

- Steve

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