Cross Currents; Lecture by Dr. William Birch Jr. of Yale University on the Social Meaning of Forests and by Sister Elizabeth Canden on the Current Condition of the Founding Ideas of American Life
Cross Currents; Lecture by Dr. William Birch Jr. of Yale University on the Social Meaning of Forests and by Sister Elizabeth Canden on the Current Condition of the Founding Ideas of American Life
Description:
The first half of this episode is the lecture titled "The Social Meaning of Forests," where Dr. William Birch Jr. discusses the importance of forests in human development and society. Dr. Birch focuses the lecture on four clusters of meaning: forest as personal and social metaphors, forest as locales for managing potentially threatening social aggregates, forests as stimuli and foci for larger social movements, forests as setting where certain intergroup bonds may be established and sustained. Second half of this episode is an abbreviated form of Sister Elizabeth Canden's lecture titled "The Possible Impossible Dream," on the topic of the current condition of the founding ideas of American life. Canden focuses on the evolution to dependency non-work ethic, individual and group responsibility, and a forward-backward look. Crosscurrents is a series of recorded lectures and public forums exploring issues of public concern in Vermont.
