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By: RogerGLewis

RogerGLewis — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:54:17 +0000

I am with you on the Attitude question Debra, all anyone can really change is their own attitude and hope that it is recognised and acknowledged and followed as an example if it does good.
I like Toby's German example ( Theory) that if 5% adopted a resource based attitude and led by example the accepted orthodoxies would crumble for the constructs which they are.
I'm not a great believer in re inventing the wheel, it seems that we do not have too for Me Ruskin and Ghandi already pointed that out and of course Paine before that and back for 5000 years according the David Griever another of Toby's Lamps and mine too.
I started reading here today.
http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/revolutionary-change-new-ebook/
There really is something to the love of Money being the root of all evil I think.
By the way this blog was some notes for a Song or maybe a poem I have started writing also taking in the Mango tree concepts of paulo friere, his ideas of Teaching and Learning I think have a lot to do with attitudes I am very into Plurality both as a metaphor and a scientific concept, your binary thought objection I am interested to learn more of.

By: Debra

Debra — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:20:40 +0000

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good".....
Thomas Paine ?
The older I get, the more I see that what WE call good and evil are inextricably caught up together.
If we listened to the proverbs we would hear... "the way to hell is paved with good intentions".
Imagine for a minute all the HELL we have created on earth with the best of intentions ?
In the end, Voltaire advocated cultivating one's garden.
I agree with him... the AMBITION to save the world, the poor, the downtrodden has brought down a lot of suffering on the world.
As I sometimes say on a blog where I get a lot of flak, voluntary servitude is one of the most powerful forces in the human world, and it is a big mistake to not take it into account by idealizing... the poor and the downtrodden, for example. They too... ARE MEN AND WOMEN, and participate in our COMMON HUMANITY.
The Western world continues to try to understand freedom...
Can you be a slave AND STILL BE FREE ??
I think so. Because in the long run, probably the only thing that we can REALLY control in our experience IS OUR ATTITUDE towards the cards we are dealt in life...
That's already A LOT OF FREEDOM.
But trying to find freedom on the OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE leads to some pretty heady perversion, in my book.
I do agree though... that fences are NO FUN.