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Lie Detection6 years ago
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Demand-driven learning13 years ago
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I have always struggled with the mood and tone of these messages. They seem so patronizing and desperate. I totally agree with the information and communicating it, yet some how the feeling doesn't hit me as being totally true to the greater issues we humans are facing, the root causes of their information. Thoughts?
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What we should always, always, always remember when we're talking about, well, anything(!) is that humans are derivitive. We come from the dirt just like everything else. So when we want to talk about these greater human issues, we should do so if and only if we have discussed and assessed the health of the land upon which we depend.
ReplyDeleteFor example, the person speaking in the video below (titled "Emergent Economy") who is using the internet to benefit himself during economic strife is using a system that is fundamentally exploitative (you must have an extractive industrial system to be able to support the use of computers and the internet).
What is problematic is that we civilized humans who have grown up in a civilized, industrial society are not questioning the very existence of the system which just happens to be destroying billions of years worth of biological evolution. We are living in a deviation, a deviation from the way humans lived for tens of thousands of years.
To say it simply, one being's shit must always become another beings food. Period. The laptop I am using to type this cannot be eaten by anyone, will most likely have to be taken apart by some poor woman in Thailand, and then be disposed of in a landfill or incinerated--either way poisoning rather than benefiting cycles of life. Whatever economy(ies) emerges from the current one must take the fundamentals of life into consideration. That's all I hoped to bring to this blog with these videos.
You said it!
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