Download or read book Gardeners Vs. Designers written by Brian Lee Crowley and published by Sutherland House Books. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A political essay about Canadian government style and a call for a new type of conservative leadership, Crowley claims that Canadian politicians need to be less of a "designer" (top-down pronouncements) and more of a "gardener" (working from the bottom up, cultivating instead of engineering). Having divided thinkers about society into these two large categories, Crowley tells us that the designers believe that they have sufficient knowledge or data to bring about precisely the end that they desire (or at least that they say that they desire, though their drive to power should never be underestimated) without any deleterious unintended consequences, whereas the gardeners are more modest and are content to work with what already exists, especially where whatever already exists has virtues or beauties. This is not a call to inaction or passivity: gardeners have a profound influence on the gardens that they cultivate, but they do not fall prey to the delusion that they can create anything they like irrespective of the climate, soil, nature of the plants available, etc."--