Re: gleaning

**M* S* <m*@gmail.com>**

Hi Dave,

How nice to see you pipe up here! And yes, you have a great point:
communication sometimes has to take place on a couple of layers in order to
be accepted by people with varying knowledge-bases.

Personally, I vote for expressing, whenever possible, the "rational" line of
thinking and then, if that fails, the emotional. As a teacher and writer, I
work with both routinely and often endeavor to bring the emotional (tiny
little) into the rational so that more than one "thinking center" of the
student/listener is engaged.

Ah....but all that is sort of off-topic. My point was that, like many great
ideas, the reality of an action is sometimes more complicated than it first
appears. It's like inviting CSA members to "pick their own." I would never
think of planting a pick-your-own crop in any area that I wasn't planning to
rework the following spring anyway.

Miranda

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Dave Jacke
<davej@edibleforestgardens.com>wrote:

>
> Harris explains how many of the myths of various cultures have an
> ecological
> basis: sacred cows in India might be sacred because they had a higher
> benefit to the ecosystem and culture alive than as a source of meat; many
> halal and kosher restrictions relate to various diseases common to the
> various regions of the Middle East at the time; etc. ... Logic and deep
> systems understanding do not cut it with many people, but
> boogie men and monsters strike fear into the heart so people remember them
> and comply.
>
>
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