[wsfii-discuss] olpc presentation

Thu Jan 5 01:34:55 UTC 2006

Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:20:13PM +0100, miluz wrote:
>> Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
>>> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:17:09PM +0100, miluz wrote:
>>>> Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Kids don't think like economists to plan secured future. They are social
>>>>> animals (homo sapiens). 
>>>> All children in africa dreamed about school.
>>> Question is if the content of their dream is realistic. To be realistic
>>> they would have to dream about boredom, bullying, lots of wasted time,
>>> and a bit of education.
>> Even they ignore what school means - you can't imagine how fast and how
>> far informations are flowing in the world - they know what a pencil and
>> a paper are (really fabulous drawings anyway. We are only trying to make
>> the same today).
>>
>> Children are living in a world of dreams, do you remember?
>> Do you really think that they dream about prostitution, drugs, violence,
>> scare, hungry, cold,...? That's all our "developped" countries have to
>> give them for instance. I'm ashamed, sometime afraid, of what they are
>> thinking of us.
>>>> Joke for joke:
>>>> In "Darwing Nightmare", do you think that the prostitute questionned has
>>>> a single chance one day to learn computer sciences as she would like to?
>>> And do they have realistic expectations for computer science? Don't they
>>> think that computer scientist is just a well-paid secretary?
>> When you will see the film - I hope for you - you will see her eyes when
>> she says that. Far away from money, power, all things that she knows
>> perfectly... only freedom.
> 
> But they dream about freedom only when they are poor. As soon as you
> give a human money or power, he usually gets corrupted.
This girl isn't poor, and she's not dreaming (children are). Freedom is
not a dream. Nor a nightmare; scared people need money and/or power as
external security. Thus our "civilized" countries are corrupted as a
whole.

 >
>> Don't forget that contempt is the only one feeling entirely shared.
> 
> Can you prove this?
Can you prove a feeling?
What do you feel for someone who hold you in contempt?


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