[AAACE-NLA] modernization thesis

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Andres,

If a light is switched in Sri Lanka and in my home, and nothing happens, the same non-event causes this:  no electricity. 

The Sri Lankan villager lives closer to the ground than I do and the village land is among the most fertile in the  world.  Good rain fall, too.

I live an oil dependent life, you do, too.  We are both surrounded by oil based products.


There was an  article last week in the NYTimes about  a Mexican couple and their daughter who had moved to Las Vegas from California, for a better  life. In the desert?  How  long will this better life last?  Climate change?  Water table?

Postmodernism is conceptually incoherent because it falls apart in the face of the  pan-universal need for energy sources. It ignores this very basic fact of life. It does not take account of a major piece of reality.  I am suggesting that  if  we  want a long term vision for adult literacy we had better figure out ways of taking this large piece of reality into account.

A call-in show recently featured Tom Friedman talking about India and globalization.  We are all in the same boat on this one.

Andrea