A personal reaction to uncovering a new fact

For my first year after leaving York I lived in a neighborhood in East York, which is a slice of Toronto between the central city and Scarborough.
There was a park there, a park currently housing the Ontario Science Center.


This is the Earnest Thompson Seton park.

Why do I think this is personal? Because I know who this man is. This is the other side to the story of: The origin of Scouting. And I believe that modern Scouting has matured into E.T. Seton's image, rather than what Powell had planned.

Seton was a naturalist who experienced violence in his youth, and therefore there is a very strong anti-violence characteristic in his actions.

Powell was a man of war. He was a general, and used his 'Boy Scouts' for less dangerous missions during battles.

Can you spot the humanist? Is it difficult?

The reason I brought it up is because I respect Seton's approach and the value of understanding sustenance and resources, and also because the value of understanding these things now very much extends into a purely technological world view.

We can realize this by understanding:
a) how tech is involved in resource management (on global scales, and just some directions its going in.
b) understanding energy use and the mantra for renewable orbital solar systems.
c) being aware of what is required for a single human to survive.
d) how it is required for humanity to change is some profound way to survive the next century.

Technology is the basis for all growth in the modern world.
A new form of naturalistic thinking, the thinking of E.T., is emerging. A naturalist who understands the technological relationship as natural and inescapable. If we stop denying simple things like we need transportation and efficient farming, etc, then we can be better equipped to solve the problem with new ways of thinking. Ways that don't stigmatize modern culture the way PETA and others do.

A new form of education can be thought of. As naturalist and Scouting were crucial at the turn of the last century, teaching children of this era of the proper view of technology will eventually benefit.
Thus the Techno-Scout has been born. And I am their Powell.