AAAS Call for Posters - Deadline Nov. 14, 2004

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Present your poster at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington DC,
February 17 - 21, 2005.

The AAAS Poster Session provides the opportunity for individuals to
present their research and offers an excellent venue for extended
informal discussion with meeting attendees.

All posters will be peer-reviewed. Accepted posters will be printed in
the 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting Poster Book.


Find out more and submit your abstract online:
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/02_PE/Posters.shtml



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live. To feed themselves they must be peasants or
herdsmen or fishermen or hunter, etc., And, generally speaking, local
autonomy should tend to increase, because lack of advanced technology
and rapid communications will limit the capacity of governments or
other large organizations to control local communities.

185. As for the negative consequences of eliminating industrial
society -- well, you can't eat your cake and have it too. To gain one
thing you have to sacrifice another.

186. Most people hate psychological conflict. For this reason they
avoid doing any serious thinking about difficult social issues, and
they like to have such issues presented to them in simple,
black-and-white terms: THIS is all good and THAT is all bad. The
revolutionary ideology should therefore be developed on two levels.

187. On the more sophisticated level the ideology should address
itself to people who are intelligent, thoughtful and rational. The
object should be to create a core of people who will be opposed to the
industrial system on a rational, thought-out basis, with full
appreciation of the problems and ambiguities involved, and of the
price that has to be paid for getting rid of the system. It is
particularly important to attract people of this type, as they are
capable people and will be instrumental in influencing others. These
people should be addressed on as rational a level as possible. Facts
should never intentionally be distorted and intemperate language
should be avoided. This does not mean that no appeal can be made to
the emotions, but in making such appeal care should be taken to avoid
misrepresenting the truth or doing anything else that would destroy
the intellectual respectability of the ideology.

188. On a second level, the ideology should be propagated in a
simplified form that will enable the unthink