I’m not so sure that we need another vision. There have been thousands of them
since humankind began. They’ve begun with beautiful inspirational thoughts.
They’ve usually ended with repression and slaughter. Christianity began with
the simple words of Christ and became a vast, repressive and all controlling
machine. In its essence, communism is built on the simple and beautiful idea
that the people who do the work should own the tools they work with. Out of
that came Stalinist Russia. Instead of more visions, what we may need is a
stronger sense of realities of the world we live in. Perhaps that’s not
possible. It could lead to huge fights over which sense of reality is the
correct one and should therefore prevail.
Ed
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From: Arthur Cordell <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Futurework <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 9:18:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Ottawadissenters] Great foresight
Agree. We
really need a positive image for the future. Economic growth, development,
regional expansion, etc. have all been seen to be wanting at the least and more
often seen to be destructive.
What positive
images have people come across.
Arthur
From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On
Behalf Of Lawrence de Bivort
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Futurework
Subject: Re: [Ottawadissenters] Great foresight
Good catch, Steve.
Yes, we have now become dependent and dominated by the very
megasystems that we have ourselves created. And they are too complex to
understand and too expensive to improve.
But the game is not over, by a long shot, and we humans have
many tools yet in our toolbox. The main threat comes, I think, from those sunk
in despair because they lack the imagine to find solutions, and from those so
swallowed in anger that they lack the energy for anything else.
Cheers,
Lawry
On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Steve Kurtz wrote:
"We have geared the machines and locked all together into interdependence; we
have built the great cities; now there is no escape. We have gathered vast
populations incapable of free survival, insulated From the strong earth, each
person in himself helpless, on all dependent. The circle is closed, and the net
Is being hauled in."
~ From The Purse Seine, Robinson Jeffers, 1937
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