Francois,
That's why I'm an academic: I'm unlikely to ever be rich, but I'm very
likely to be happy.
That's my secret. Your mileage may vary. :)
Cheers.
Fil
On 18 March 2011 17:17, Francois Nsenga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Don, Clide and colleagues
>
> I personally believe it is a matter neither of "humility", "arrogance", nor
> of designation of our profession. Designers of whatever creed would
> definitely have avoided the crisis if they had operated within a worldview
> different of the one initiated six centuries ago in Western Europe, and now
> worldwide spread.
>
> Rather, both as individuals and as a profession, we ought to start now
> realizing that, and acting as, money and monetary profit maximizing
> activities aren't the only pledge to happiness...! (See this February 2011
> Newsletter issued by Japan for Sustainability, launching the "Institute for
> the Study of Happiness, Economy, and Society (ISHES)" :
> http://www.japanfs.org/en/mailmagazine/newsletter/pages/030685.html )
>
> No doubt crises like this one afflicting Japanese people, together with so
> many other calamities humanity is suffering daily ( "Blood in the Mobile" -
> http://bloodinthemobile.org/ - was aired on CBC TV last evening) are all
> alarm bells to start devising a replacement worldview. And in this each of
> us, in whichever area of respective involvement and in whatever capacity,
> has an indispensable role to play.
>
> Francois
> Montreal
>
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