COURSE WORKBOOK SPRING 2012 Chapter Science is about a world without emotions, this chapter is not. –felix peniche 1 words of change “When you are confronted by any “try telling yourself complex social system, such as an you are not accountable urban center or a hamster, with things to the life of your tribe about it that you’re dissatisfied with the breath of your planet “ and anxious to fix, you cannot just Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and essayist step in and set about fixing with much hope of helping. This realization is one of the sore discouragements of our Change is the law of life. And those who century…you cannot meddle with one look only to the past or present are certain part of a complex system from the to miss the future. outside without the almost certain risk John F. Kennedy of setting off disastrous events that you hadn’t counted on in other, remote parts. If you want to fix It is easier to fight for one’s something you are first obliged to principles than to live up to them. understand…the whole Alfred Adler system…intervening is a way of causing trouble.” Lewis Thomas, biologist Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein I think courage is walking into a building that you know could collapse at any minute, to try to save others. —A witness to the 2001 World Trade Center towers tragedy 2 REMEMBER THAT ALL THINGS ARE ONLY OPINIONS AND THAT IT I S “Each life represents a unique narrative which reveals how we IN YOUR POWER TO THI NK cope with and combines within specific socio-historical AS YOU PLEASE. circumstances, the components of our personal and collective M A R C U S A U R E L I U S ( 1 1 2 – history, how we build our personal and social identities, and 180 C . E .)— how we make use of the freedom the socio-historical environment ROMAN EMPEROR AND leaves us” Apfelbaum, 2001 , p. 172 STOIC PHILOSOPHER ”Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs." / Brundtland Report We know that relying solely on argument we wandered for forty years politically in the wilderness. We know that arguments are not enough . and that political force is necessary. Christa Bel Pankhurst. suffragist 3 George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman. Donella Meadows History says, Don’t hope If it ain’t broke, you just haven’t looked On this side of the grave. hard enough. Tom Peters But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney, “The Cure at Troy” I do believe that life is just a day in school. All our experiences are but lessons in some form or other which condition us for our larger destiny. What matters, and what matters only is what we do with the problems. Tell me, what is it you plan to do, with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver 4 Under existing macro-economic arrangements, growth is the only A conservative is a man with two perfectly real answer to unemployment – good legs who, however, has never learned society is hooked how to walk forward. on growth. Franklin D. Roosevelt Douglas Booth, 20041 An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. We know that relying solely on argument Arnold H. Glasow we wandered for forty years politically in the wilderness. We know that arguments A country's strategy is always based on a are not enough . and that political force fundamental philosophical outlook. is necessary. Marc Forne Molne -Christa bel Pankhurst. suffragist A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. Michael LeBoeuf "the struggle of people versus power is the struggle of memory against forgetting" Milan Kundera “Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.” Chaim Potok What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet. Susan George 5 “RADICAL SIMPLY MEANS GRASPING THINGS BY THE ROOTS” ANGELA DAVIS AND HERE YET ANOTHER TEMPTATION Change is not a destination, just as hope is ASSERTS ITSELF. WHY NOT WAIT UNTIL not a strategy. Rudy Giuliani OUR CAUSE BECOMES VIVID AND URGENT ENOUGH, AND OUR SIDE N U M E R O U S Creative without strategy is called 'art.' ENOUGH, TO VOTE OUR OPPONENT S O U T Creative with strategy is called OF OFFICE? WHY NOT B E PATIENT? MY 'advertising.' O W N A N S W E R IS THAT WHILE WE ARE Jef I. Richards BEING PATIENT, MORE MOUNTAINS, FORESTS, AND STREAMS , MORE PEOPLE'S However beautiful the strategy, you should HOMES AND LIVES, WIL L BE DESTROYED occasionally look at the results. IN THE APPALACHIAN C OAL FIELDS. ARE Winston Churchill 400,000 ACRES OF DEV ASTATED LAND, AND 1 ,200 MILES OF OBLITERATED STREAMS NOT ENOUGH? THIS NEEDS T O BE STOPPED. IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE "REGULATED." AS BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS HA V E A M P L Y The world is a SHOWN, YOU CANNOT RE G U L A T E A N dangerous place to live; not ABOMINATION. YOU HAV E GOT TO STOP because of the IT. - WENDELL BERRY, AUTHO R A N D people who are FARMER WE GOT FURTHER SMASH I N G evil, but because WINDOWS THAN WE EVER G O T L E T T I N G of the people who don't do anything T H E M S M A S H O U R H E A D S . about it. - CHRISTABEL PANKHURST , SUFFRAGIST Albert Einstein “At best it was a cruel trick of nature, at worst it was the predictable price of arrogance, greed and tunnel bureaucratic vision.” - Tom Harris 6 The main battle in imperialism is over land, of course; but when it came to who owned the land, who You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or had the right else a strategy is useless. Charles de Gaulle to settle and work on it, who kept it going, who won it back, and who now plans the future-these “The difference between theory and practice issues were is that in theory, there is no difference between reflected, contested, even for a time decided theory and practice, but in practice, there is.” in narrative. Jan van de Sneptscheut -Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism Given the same amount of intelligence. timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity. I hear many condemn these men because -Carl von Clausewitz. Strategist they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? -Henry David Thoreau. "A Plea for Hillel & Pastor Martin Niemöller in Conscience be Captain John Brown: my Guide, p.126 Erica Chenowth & Maria J. If I am for myself then, who am I?... Stephan in Why civil resistance works, p. 221 First they came for the Jews We have argued that: Nonviolent resistance And I did not speak out - campaigns have been more effective… because I was not Jew. “WE ARE COTTON CAUGHT Second that the historical Then they came for the communist success of nonviolent IN THE AIR, AND I WILL campaigns is explained by And I did not speak out - NOT STRAY MEANING the fact that the physical, moral and informational Because I was not a communist. FROM THIS” barriers to participation in Then they came for the trade unionist nonviolent campaigns are DERRICK BROWN substantially And I did not speak out – lower…nevertheless we have also shown that just Because I am not a trade unionist. because a campaign is Then they came for me- nonviolent does not guarantee its success. And there was no one left Campaigns do not succeed simply because they have To speak for me won the moral high ground…Rather, the ability of the campaign to make strategic adjustments is crucial… 7 For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no I B E L I E V E moral goodness in using an “SUSTAINABL E U S E ” I S ineffective weapon. -Nelson Mandela T H E G R E A T E S T PROPAGANDA IN WILDLIFE Those who bothered incessantly about security survived, but few of them CONSERVATIO had much beyond survival to their credit. To strike and then to survive was N A T T H E the real test. MOMENT. M. R. D. Foot, historian on World War II resistance movements. STEVE IRWIN I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable. We preserve the socalled peace of our community by deeds of petty violence every day.