translated, modernity threatens pre-modernity ... yes, that is undoubtedly true, <br><br>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)<br>
<br>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<br>
<br>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<br>
<br>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<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:54 PM, j.martin.pedersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.pedersen@lancaster.ac.uk">m.pedersen@lancaster.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 08/02/11 16:26, Michel Bauwens wrote:<br>
> - *you do not �care for children with free software commons, you do not eat<br>
<div class="im">> with it, you do not make love or bury the dead.<br>
><br>
> literally of course you are right, but in may other ways, no, in fact,<br>
> software <is> a universal enabler, and, , it makes a crucial importance 'in<br>
> real life'; in fact, it affects the care for children (through advances in<br>
> medical knowledge, increased autonomy of patients, reachability of<br>
> disadvantaged populations)<br>
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</div>The WHO estimates that 85% of the world's population rely on traditional<br>
medicine. The major threat to traditional medicine according to many -<br>
and this I have found to be a general consensus among the people I have<br>
worked with in the Amazon - is foreign language, education, medicine,<br>
technology and all the side effects (land grabs etc.) of the production<br>
of these.<br>
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