Advancementalism

Paula asked us at Retreat “What does it
MEAN to be a ‘citizen’ of Warren Wilson?”

Triad:

Out-Sourcing
Local Food Full Cost Accountability

For the Sustainability Club and Environ
Mental Studies and Leadership programs:
Analyze THAT.


SUSTAINABILTY in terms of a Nation is
not the same as Sustainability in terms of a
State or sustainability in terms of a city
or sustainability in terms of a community
or sustainability in terms of a family or
sustainability in terms of relationship.

But the WORD
remains the same.

What is sustained? What does it cost?

Environmentalism

External Environmental Issues &
Internal Environmental Issues are
not the same deal, but easily
collapsed, conflated and
confused..

And everyone knows the WHOLE
is always more then sum of parts &
parties so that what’s GOOD for the
Valley Ecology is not the same GOOD
that’s good for Farmer Brown which
good is incommensurate with the Good
for Goose & Gander.

Got to be genius to claim to practice full
cost accounting & accountability, or a
liberal artist maybe.

“There are nowadays professors of
philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet
it is admirable to profess because it
was once admirable to live. To be
a philosopher is not merely to have
subtle thoughts, nor even to found
a school, but so to love wisdom
as to live according to its dictates,
a life of simplicity, independence,
magnanimity, and trust.

It is to solve some of the problems
of life, not only theoretically, but
practically... How can a man be a
philosopher and not maintain his
vital heat by better methods than
other men?” Thoreau, “Economy.”
Walden

This is EngMajor talk. Pertinent to
individuals, not to institutions. Big
difference. This kind of talk is GOOD
in some classrooms but not so much
in the reeling whirl. True?

Maybe anyone can improve my terms.
I wish you would, or what's a college
commons for?.

xxxooo, Citizen Pain