People don't generally understand, that we don't deduce things, we learn things.
Cultural evolution has been a process of the transferring of knowledge from one generation to the next.
If Rome had not burned 99% of all books of the ancient Greeks, IMO we would be a thousand years ahead of where we are now.
When I wrote those state plans for EMS and a statewide alcohol and drug abuse program and did the Valdez oil spill monitoring for the governors office in Valdez for two years, I researched what had been done before me.
For the EMS state plan they had been working on it for five years under PL 93-154 and the guy who had been writing if for a year left 6 weeks before the deadline and left a memo for the planning director that it could not be written.
They hired me to write it with only six weeks left as a last resort-lol, true story, toughest job of my life.
I worked 12 hours a day every day for six weeks reading other plans and adapting them to Alaska.
I knew how to write a plan as I had written the alcohol and drug abuse plan, which is why they hired me, but I had to learn the subject of EMS as I wrote.
It was a comprehensive plan with 15 components with goals, objectives, and methodology, starting with accessing the patient stabilizing them, and then transporting them through out patient.
The rest of the story: I was hired as a temporary consultant, and when I finished I left and went to work on the oil pipeline out of the laborers union.
Alaska was granted $500,000 to implement the plan. I came back six months later and no one knew what to do, so they hired me back to write a second plan and then decided to just make me the state director-lol!
I set the program up to evolve as it was not the right job for me long term, and about two years later I quit and went to the university of Washington to do my graduate work. |
