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Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.50,0:00:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, more and more people wanna live in more independent self-reliant, less institutional way.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.58,0:00:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kind of tools and techniques that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.08,0:00:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are chosen to support that way of life have been given a name:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.21,0:00:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Alternative" or "Appropriate Technology"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.32,0:00:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can have a free society.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.76,0:00:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tools and techniques appropriate to that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.57,0:00:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be of a certain kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.54,0:00:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a certain kind in the sense of the behind technology or low technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.95,0:00:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but be a certain kind in the sense that they can be developed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.44,0:00:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deployed, maintained by the people involved
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.71,0:00:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the justice there, their politics is participatory,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.89,0:01:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so is their material base.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.36,0:01:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people think appropriate technology means
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.97,0:01:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making your own candles and wearing a lot of beads
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.22,0:01:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and saying "wow" a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.70,0:01:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would seem to me it's the other way around - appropriate technology means that you gotta know more than all those people in MIT.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.20,0:01:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can make a gadget that is just plain dumb!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.71,0:01:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's always GM and the US government to support it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.83,0:01:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anybody says that I'm a leader in alternative technologies,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.78,0:01:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would tell they're absolutely wrong. I'm neither a leader nor a follower, I'm a practitioner.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.93,0:01:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all the people that I know who are involved in this take it as one of the most important points
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.44,0:01:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there are no leaders - only practitioners.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.96,0:02:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My teaching - if it is indeed teaching - is about an attitude, it's called "beginner's mind".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.83,0:02:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it means simply is approaching every problem... open, like a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.52,0:02:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With no pre-conceptions, trying to understand the problem wholly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.14,0:02:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then using the entire universe of knowledge for the answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.13,0:02:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world demands of people that they know more and not less
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.66,0:02:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about their entire environment. The environment isn't just trees and bunny rabbits.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.04,0:02:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The environment is ideas, the environment is machines, the environment is just a (central real living ?).
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.45,0:02:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the extent that you think anything is too complicated for you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.03,0:02:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or too worrisome, "it's too boring", "I don't wanna get involved with that",
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.28,0:02:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you become - intend to be victimized by.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.74,0:02:53.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This does not mean that everybody has to know everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.57,0:02:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it certainly suggests that you should know something about most things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.14,0:03:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people look at today's huge commercial mass production technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.08,0:03:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they (think ?) it'll always be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.39,0:03:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My feeling is that's the way the cockroach must have once looked at the dinosaur.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.77,0:03:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks up to this thing and then says:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.04,0:03:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh my God! That thing is too big it'll be with us forever and the best we can do is just (dug ?)."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.82,0:03:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the same thing I think is true of the big technologies - like a dinosaur:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.93,0:03:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Big tail, swishes around, knocks everything over but the brains is the size of a pea - and it too shall pass.