The technology for giving people a truly good time is well understood: give them rest, regular food, something useful to do, a chance to reflect on and value their own lives, a context of mutual respect and encouragement, a beautiful setting. I just came back from a class built on these principles. It worked very, very well. Now we have the conversations with the returnees, about the less glorious parts of the lives they come back to.
It strikes me that this is where ethics starts -- in conversations about the kinds of spaces human beings can create and the kinds of spaces they habitually and normally create, the gulf between the two, and the options for those who have been brought to appreciate this difference.
Posted by shea0017 at June 29, 2006 8:11 AM