Friday, December 29, 2006

pushing forward back

makes me so happy
Dairy cows join effort to corral greenhouse gases [east oregonian]

part of broader trend of kind of this retro form of modernization. not retro but like this back-looking moving forward.
eg, poor people been utilizing cow manure in india since forever

marriage of modern science which lends precision and efficiency
with "ancient" or somehow "natural" human practices

funny how when humans really started using science for practical things liek commerce etc it was such a perverse technology-obsessed usage. thinking like from the industrial revolution through to the 60's ... when a technology was introduced it totally replaced the traditional or folk practice. now i think we are finally seeing mroe and more instances of these two things working together.

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