Subject: Manipulation
From: Crispin Weston (crispinw@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Tue 02 May 2000 - 15:15:33 MEST
From: "Crispin Weston" <crispinw@dircon.co.uk> Subject: Manipulation Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 14:15:33 +0100
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David Wiles writes:
<<ability to 'manipulage the world' per se seems weak and obtuse to me.
Crispin, call
it a colonial-cultural thing, but explain that word manipulate a little
more....hitler and jesus one in the same?>>
If 'manipulating the world' carries echoes of Hitler and Jesus, then perhaps
I should have said 'manipulating the material world'. What I meant to refer
to is what I believe all experts do: predict the behaviour of the material
world and use that knowledge to help achieve their own ends. It is what
doctors do when they heal; what engineers do when they build machines; what
farmers do when they sow crops which produce higher yields than can be found
in a natural envioronment. Without our ability to manipulate the material
world in this sense, we would be no better off than the cavemen.
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