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atuuschaaw	Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:14 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 781 Location: an ahwangan	In April of 2008, the Seattle Green Festival hosted guest speaker David Korten. Korten's presentation is now available in text via Yes Magazine and also as a sound file. _________________ "Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
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atuuschaaw	Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:46 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 781 Location: an ahwangan	Here in the states, we seem to be strangled by a very destructive hybrid paradigm. One which has been called hyper capitalism mixed with American exceptionalim. The people seem to be sleep walking and are willing to accept symbolic representation of their rights and freedoms rather than the real thing. We continue to recite their stories rather than writing our own! And as long as we are willing to accept the dehumanizing tactics of their stories, we will continue to live in this fantasy world that corporate America has written and produced for the people. Oh, but what a curse to live with open eyes and an open mind. Such an ugly place once the layers of deception fall away. Korten is one who sees the reality of our position, and understands we must change the stories. We are the ones we've been waiting for to change our world's desperate situation. _________________ "Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
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wm pasz	Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:24 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	There's a really interesting short interview in Michael Moore's Sicko with British Labour Party politician Tony Benn. The 1.5 min. clip is one of the best summations of why we are sleepwalking our way through life: People who are shackled with debt, have no hope. People who are hopeless don't vote (or otherwise participate in civic life. Keeping people shackled with debt is an integral part of the corporatist paradigm. Keep people hopeless and frightened and they'll just hang on quietly hoping things will somehow get better. I think of this now pretty much every time I hear people lamenting about the seeming apathy of North American citizens which many conclude is a sign that we are somehow OK with our circumstances. I don't think this is the case at all. Benn's words have really got me thinking about the extent to which the "debt industry" contributes to our enslavement. I think it's the lynchpin on which the whole paradigm operates. People don't challenge their employers because they're in debt. People don't get involved in unions or other workplace organizations because they're in debt. People live month to month terrified of what will happen if they lose a job or go more than a couple of weeks without an income. They're drowning in debt and face ruin if they can't keep up their (minimum) payments. Wagging our fingers sanctimoniously at the indebted millions and admonishing them to pay their debts and stop living beyond their means is pointless. Most people wlll never get out from under the yoke and many can't live within their means. It's not possible. The debt machine keeps grinding on and on. The subprime debacle is just its latest and more brazen manifestation. I've been following this so-called crisis with a mix of fascination and revulsion because the whole daisy chain of corporate financial wizards who made this thing happen knew fully well how it was going to end but they all made a pile and none of them are hurting. It's the little guys who got stuck holding the bag. It's totally unconscionable that so many thousands of people are homeless because of this fraud. I think people should start playing hardball with the debt industry - including the credit reporting agencies. There's a whole frontier where some innovative citizen activism and civil disobedience could go a long way to laying the groundwork for the earth community and freeing people from their shackles. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X
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atuuschaaw	Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:40 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 781 Location: an ahwangan	WP, as I was reading your reply, my thoughts drifted towards another discussion in the past. It's on the MFD site and it is just as profound and pertinent to our earth community today as it was six years ago IMHO. Why We Call Them the Machine We are continually being reassured that our current system is the best in the world and that it's not broken...perhaps just in need of repair. And of course it's our fault that this repair is needed. They have used their stories to assimilate the masses of our people in order to prop up their ideological gods that have been built with unsustainable visions wrapped in unending greed. With the Third Wave upon us and a growing awareness of the need for a sustainable earth community, the time is ripe for the people to reach out to other like minded earth citizens in order to break free of those shackles you mention! Quote: What we see, then, glancing backward for a moment of summary, is a civilization heavily dependent on fossil fuels, factory production, the nuclear family the corporation, mass education and the mass media, all based on a widening cleavage between production and consumption--and all managed by a set of elites whose task it was to integrate the whole. In this system, representative government was the political equivalent of the factory. Indeed, it was a factory for the manufacture of collective integrational decisions. Like more factories, it was managed from above and like most factories, it is now increasingly obsolete, a victim of the advancing Third Wave. _________________ "Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
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wm pasz	Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:19 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	A number of recent developments are underscoring the point that the industrial age and its myths and institutions are in free fall. Maybe the beast does devour itself eventually once it's sucked the life out of everything around it. Look at the growing burgeoning food crisis is a prime and very lethal example of where the corporatist myth inevitably leads. It's not that there isn't enough food, it's that the lords of the corporatist kingdom won't let people grow it or distribute it such that the most basic human need is met. The fallout of the current escalation in oil prices (again more manipulation of the market by our corpo-lords) will be ironic in a sense as it may well make the notion of the global market evaporate as shipping costs make manufactured goods prohibitively expensive to transport. This will only hasten the collapse of the mass manufacturing concept that is already in rough shape. As difficult as it is, we must wean ourselves off of the ancillary myth that the corpo-lords' huge manufacturing operations are a good thing that must somehow be protected and maintained. The mass manufacturing model was never sustainable. It's fallout has ruined the environment and brainwashed several generations of humans into believing that it's OK to park your brain at the punch clock (the problem is that it's not so easy to restart it at quitting time - or ever). I don't think that many people have any idea of the brainwashing, conformity and apathy that the traditional model of workplace relations promotes. The command and control thing must end. You can't have people submitting to the domination of others for most of their waking hours and most of their adult lives and expect that they will somehow rise up and rebel. There needs to be a far-ranging effort to open discussion and promote alternative models of relations among humans in the workplace. I've said this before but I think that most people think it's just too radical. It's not. No more than tell a slave that he or she should imagine what it would be like to be free. The time is now. There are about 4 different generations in and around the workplace and each one has its own disatisfaction with command and control. Things are at the point where many may well be open to discussion about alternatives. All we have to do is get the conversation started. Change the workplace order and the social order will follow.... Using Korten's concept of expressing values of the old and emergent eras as stories, what would be the old workplace story? What would be a changed or earth community story? Give it some thought people. Overcome that conditioning. I'll give you my thoughts on this a little later. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X
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