[P2P-F] [Commoning] new capitalism and commoning

[Michel Bauwens]

translated, modernity threatens pre-modernity ... yes, that is undoubtedly
true,

but I would add that trans-modernity can regenerate pre-modernity hence the
many initiatives by people protecting traditional knowledge and medicine; we
also see a enormous revival of traditional and complementary medicines in
advanced western countries, which correlates with educational level (higher
educated people rely less on scientific medicine)

a strategy of protection of traditional medicine which would rely on
forbidding foreign language, education and western medicine, does not seem
to have much chance of achieving anything, least of all the protection of
traditional medicine, which in a unprotected traditional society would be
swept away in an instant; hence an intelligent mix of resistance to protect
traditional lifestyles and modes of production, mixed with an adaptation to
modernity, and a strong push straight towards transmodernity, would seem
like better strategies

amongst the local poor people I have spoken with here, there is a universal
consensus that they would like education for their children and the
protection of their own culture, and access to western medicine as well as
continued use of traditional medicine; I have actually never meet anyone who
refused access to education and medicine, given the chance; rather they
complain about the lack and inequality of access

for example, such were the demands of the rural red shirt uprising, and
their desire to protect the advances they had obtained under a previous
pre-coup administration: universal healthcare, and scholarships for poor
children

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:54 PM, j.martin.pedersen <
m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/02/11 16:26, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > - *you do not  care for children with free software commons, you do not
> eat
> > with it, you do not make love or bury the dead.
> >
> > literally of course you are right, but in may other ways, no, in fact,
> > software <is> a universal enabler, and, , it makes a crucial importance
> 'in
> > real life'; in fact, it affects the care for children (through advances
> in
> > medical knowledge, increased autonomy of patients, reachability of
> > disadvantaged populations)
>
> The WHO estimates that 85% of the world's population rely on traditional
> medicine. The major threat to traditional medicine according to many -
> and this I have found to be a general consensus among the people I have
> worked with in the Amazon - is foreign language, education, medicine,
> technology and all the side effects (land grabs etc.) of the production
> of these.
>
>
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