It occurs to me that Saturday's events are a wonderful example of at least a 'rising' mentality in society, similar to dominance - subdominance in genetics, except fluid, perhaps the most forceful expression of the process of the mentality of conservation achieving dominance (not fully, yet, of course) over the mentality of waste; the development of mass foresight perspective, social action to change society's course in anticipation of doom should the course remain unchanged, and arguably in this case a more developed expression than previous anti-war or anti-nuclear events. It is interesting to me as an articulation of 'positive' humanity development and gives reason for hope. The role of the internet in setting this up is also interesting in analogy to the development of a nervous system in an embryo. Consider a prepubescent humanity, perhaps one in later stage blastula formation, transitioning to true differentiation in support of the whole organism, inexperienced with the dimensions of its own growth, aided in its survival expression by the introspective capabilities afforded by the technologies it has invented. RB Fuller used to say that prior to the moon landing all children would wonder if 'we' could ever go there, and post-landing all would know that we had. Similarly, since the famous image of Earth from Apollo, and the countless earth images since, the percentage of the population who can not close their eyes and 'see' the earth as a spherical system in space continues to diminish. Does this not influence the behavior of 'piles of cells who can call themselves human beings' to link their own survival (and their DNA's survival) to the survival of the natural systems that sustains them. I know it has mine, and perhaps tomorrow's crowds will reveal many others who have been similarly influenced. Just throwing this out there. http://events.stepitup2007.org/
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