rick and deborah farrington

yes and this is why we should buy our products from local crafts peole as much
as possible. instead of walmart, im gulity walmart and those places are so
convient but getting our food form farmermarkets and gifts from local crafters
and soap from local homemade soap makers
(shameless i am) ect. you know what i mean? support the locally owned
businesses....

"John O. Andersen" wrote:

> From: "John O. Andersen" <andersen@...>
>
> This book by Jean Renoir is excellent. It's filled with so much insight
> about living authentically, and the creative process.
>
> Here is a quote which very much reflects the way I personally see things:
>
> >>The reader may conclude that my father had taken a definite stand against
> science: in fact, it was more the stupid uses that science was put to that
> Renoir would rail against. His chief charge against "progress" was that it
> had substituted assembly-line production for individual creation. I shall
> go on repeating that an object, even one intended for temporary use, was
> interesting to him only if it was the authentic expression of the workman
> who had made it. The moment the workman became part of a group, of which
> each member was a specialist in one stage of the making, the object in
> question in Renoir's eyes became "anonymous."
>
> "It isn't natural," he declared. "A child can't have several fathers.
> Can't you just see a kid with ears inherited from one father, feet from
> another, his mind coming from an intellectual and his muscles from a
> wrestler? Even if part were perfect he would not be a man but a
> corporation; you might say a monster."
>
> He felt science had failed in its mission by not fighting for the expression
> of the individual; instead, it had put itself at the service of mercenary
> interests and favored mass production. The idea of turning out a perfectly
> finished product, which is the ideal of modern industry, never occurred to
> him. He was fond of quoting Pascal's phrase, "There is only one thing that
> interests man, and that is man."<< page 38.
>
> This, my friends, explains for me why an uncritical acceptance of the
> teamplayer ethos can seriously reduce our stature as human beings. Yes,
> there are many convincing arguments for cooperation and working together,
> but we must be careful to not become too smugly satisfied with being a
> specialist in an "assembly-line" (regardless of how well we're paid) if the
> process in which we participate prevents or disinclines us from expressing
> ourselves authentically and creatively.
>
> John
>
> > Check it out!
> http://www.unschooling.com

John O. Andersen

This book by Jean Renoir is excellent. It's filled with so much insight
about living authentically, and the creative process.

Here is a quote which very much reflects the way I personally see things:

>>The reader may conclude that my father had taken a definite stand against
science: in fact, it was more the stupid uses that science was put to that
Renoir would rail against. His chief charge against "progress" was that it
had substituted assembly-line production for individual creation. I shall
go on repeating that an object, even one intended for temporary use, was
interesting to him only if it was the authentic expression of the workman
who had made it. The moment the workman became part of a group, of which
each member was a specialist in one stage of the making, the object in
question in Renoir's eyes became "anonymous."

"It isn't natural," he declared. "A child can't have several fathers.
Can't you just see a kid with ears inherited from one father, feet from
another, his mind coming from an intellectual and his muscles from a
wrestler? Even if part were perfect he would not be a man but a
corporation; you might say a monster."

He felt science had failed in its mission by not fighting for the expression
of the individual; instead, it had put itself at the service of mercenary
interests and favored mass production. The idea of turning out a perfectly
finished product, which is the ideal of modern industry, never occurred to
him. He was fond of quoting Pascal's phrase, "There is only one thing that
interests man, and that is man."<< page 38.

This, my friends, explains for me why an uncritical acceptance of the
teamplayer ethos can seriously reduce our stature as human beings. Yes,
there are many convincing arguments for cooperation and working together,
but we must be careful to not become too smugly satisfied with being a
specialist in an "assembly-line" (regardless of how well we're paid) if the
process in which we participate prevents or disinclines us from expressing
ourselves authentically and creatively.

John

Thomas and Nanci Kuykendall

At 05:35 PM 10/19/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>From: rick and deborah farrington <honeybee@...>
>
>yes and this is why we should buy our products from local crafts peole as
much
>as possible. support the locally owned
>businesses....

Good for you! I know we will be headed in that direction when we get to
know our new community better.

Nanci K. in Idaho