Re: LOGO-L> Why is accurate thinking so unpopular?

["Dale R. Reed" <dale-reed@worldnet.att.net>]

Gary asked:
>how do we make electric lights work etc.?

Flip the switch up. Unless it is a light controlled by two switches
then flip it in the other direction.

In Bill Gate' new home you simply walk into a dark room and the lights
turn on automatically.

Ten years ago I worked with an Electrical Engineer that was paralyzed
from his waist down. Karl Hansen used a wheel chair and had hooks on
his arm that could barely hold a pencil or peck at a keyboard one key
at a time.  So Boeing had motion sensors installed in his office, Karl
was one of the very few engineers at Boeing with a private office, so
if anyone(including Karl) entered or moved in the room the lights were
on.  Karl knew how his lights worked but he did not have to.

Just trying to be cute Gary.  I know what you mean but the fact is in
the information age we can either know more about how things work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ or less:

http://www.imx.nl/photosite/comments/comment1098.html
<snip>The loss of reality.
That result is increasingly an 'image' and not a 'picture'. Imaging is
part of the advertising world and the graphic arts world. An image can
be a drawing or it can be a persons perceived identity. A supermodel
is an image, an illusion as is an illustration.
Culturally the disappearance of the word 'picture' means a detachment
from reality. War photography showed a grim reality and we knew it to
be true. The recording instrument (the Leica-camera as example) and
the film used (Kodak Tri-X as example) guaranteed by their technology
a true image of the world in front of the cameraman.
Now we have images of war-scenes. Digitally recorded, digitally
transmitted and digitally enhanced or manipulated. The source image is
the flash card or the hard disc. Once erased we have no chance to go
back to the source . Of course I know that pictures could and have
been manipulated. But is an exception and not part of the technique.
Now it is inherent in the techniques used.
<snip>

There is so much wealth, free time, safety-nets(insurance, social
security, etc.), that most people most of the time can just kinda kick
back, lift a cool one( and other drugs), veg out in front of the
entertainment center(Stereo, TV, Feelies,…) and expect a doctor to
repair the damage to their bad hearts and hurting knees when they eat
too much of the wrong sort of foods and do not get enough exercise to
their bodies and minds.

We can, if we want to, leave the dealing with reality to the experts
and professionals.

So Logo fanatics?   Which is it?

Does constructivist philosophy or "Piagetian learning" or whatever you
want to call it, encourage you to lead a life based on the truth
determined via your own senses and experiences integrated and analyzed
and remembered with your individual mind in your lifelong search for
reality(reference the last few pages of Brave New World)?  Do you tell
your students they must hurt(suffer reality) here on earth to earn a
place in heaven?  Or is there other/better reasons for learning about
how things work?

That the purpose of Logo is to better understand the real world or to
escape from the real world for a couple hours?

Kinda getting into religion aren't we?   That is why libertarians want
to Separate School and State.    Dale
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