MISSION EIGHT: Caravan of Pillage
‘A house cannot be sold if squatters move in and destroy it.’
- Project for the New African Century proverb
FIRST, read the story by clicking on the image below:
NOW, play the mission!
Some of our most important knowledge about the world isn’t contained in books. It’s living knowledge, embedded in local practices, and passed on from one generation to the next. The elders of local communities know better than anyone else the richness and variety of their complex ecoystems. They have a deep and detailed understanding of the properties of local plants and animals, landforms, weather systems, cake recipes and knitting patterns.
But today, this traditional wisdom is under threat as the custodians of this knowledge are dying before we have a chance to monetize and commodify their intellectual property and labour. Your mission this week: Help ensure that the elders in your community are put to good use today – before their human capital becomes lost to future generations.
To play: post a comment describing your socially innovative idea for maximising the market potential of the elders of your local community.
If you find yourself having trouble with this task, please refer to the INVOKE game manual. Note that only game-playing comments to this post will be accepted. Post any general comments here.
If you’re going to help yourself to the aged, you at least need a good song.
Let’s patent ayahuasca and then make it illegal for Brazil to have rain forests or people to have pineal glands.
Pet food factories at the waste end of hospitals, housing estates, old people homes, charity shops, morgues, no need for crematoriums, soup kitchens, industrialised flesh. Eat em, dead or alive. What the fuck do the old know? How to pray?
Bollocks.
“Some of our most important knowledge about the world isn’t contained in books. It’s living knowledge, embedded in local practices, and passed on from one generation to the next. The elders of local communities know better than anyone else the richness and variety of their complex ecosystems. They have a deep and detailed understanding of the properties of local plants and animals, landforms, weather systems, cake recipes and knitting patterns.”
I’m going to focus my mission on that.
I send a message to the World Bank that in order to take better long term care of humanity (and consequently humanity’s banking systems) they should give knowledgeable elders around the world (and consequently all humanity) opportunity to share their important knowledge via filmed interviews, to be kept in a universally and easily accessible net archive (everything expertly made).
Like the elders interviewed in this film, WISDOMKEEPERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr2T1oNlLIs&feature=player_embedded
A World Bank of Wisdom?