From: bon moun
>Honest, I'm not trying to be hard-headed. I'm just trying to make a very
>basic point. SAYING "teach everyone" is not the same as DOING it.
...[snip for brevity only]...I want to know HOW. If I start now and talk
to ten a day,
>and I live to be 80,...
Yes. I understand and share your frustration!!!!!
But I am not just presenting you with platitudes. Let's just consider what
you have said:
>I am a political organizer.
So ... why haven't you and your colleagues recognized the consequences and
started organizing so that when the pols and the media and others pull the
wool over our eyes you make them pay for it? That's within the realm of
possibility. There's something you can do. Make it costly for Dan Rather and
Shrub to lie to us and obscure the truth of those consequences I want every
one to be taught about.
>I'm trying to explain, as patiently as I can, that WE DO NOT HAVE THE
>CAPACITY TO TEACH EVERYONE ANYTHING. This is not a plan of action.
Hey, yes we do. Don't lose confidence in your skills and your reach.
>Without a plan of action, our "knowing what SHOULD happen", along with 75
>cents can get us a cup of coffee.
Nah. knowing what should happen is 90% of the battle. Imagine what it would
be like if you didn't know ...
>
>What we do has to take the existing situation into account.
The existing situation includes (at least!) two tools to get the teaching
job done.
1) the internet
2) tv
It is simply that not enough resources, thinking and action have been
brought to bear on this issue. It is possible. If we can teach the world to
"sing in perfect harmony" about Coke, we can teach it to be cognizant of
these problems. How much have you and I REALLY done to confront what seems
like the insurmountable problem of teaching? Probably more than 99.999999%
of the world, but still only a tiny fraction of what we could accomplish if
we set out to do it with the ferver that we like to pretend we'd have for a
world-wide workers revolution.
Not that it's likely, but with an advertising budget equal to the one
Budweiser has, we could convince a significant (truly ... significant)
number of people to take action.
And Stan you are certainly equal to coming up with a workable, practical
plan to acquire the budget in much less than your lifetime.
There is much to do, and we CAN do it. It just takes (ahem) "reordering our
priorities" and putting some passion into the fight.
Tom
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