Environmental and social crisis in Bali has its origins in the failures of the western social model which is preoccupied with modernity and fails to recognize and encompass the Balinese world. Modernization is not often questioned As John Maynard Keynes wrote in the conclusion to his General Theory (1935), when madmen in authority hear voices in the air, they are likely to be listening to some academic scribbler of a few years back. Today, the path from academic scribbles to large-scale social engineering projects is nowhere shorter than in what is called the developing world, where each new Fiver Year Plan must reflect the latest ideas about how to accelerate modernization. Steven Lansing, Perfect Order - Recognizing Complexity in Bali
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:16:47 +0000
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