> In short, most of the "progressive" political ideas of the last 50 years > patently haven't worked. Modern society has become much too > complex for the > relatively crude political systems that we have today. I believe > that we're > at a critical juncture in human history. There have been several such so > far when the old certainties suddenly vanished. The first period of which > we have documentary records was around 500BC when the Psalmist in > the Bible > cried out "O Lord, why has Thou forsaken me!" At around the same time the > Greeks forced Socrates to drink hemlock because they were not yet ready to > face new ideas. > > The Reformation was another such juncture. The Enlightenment was another. > As well as a great flux of ideas, both turning points were accompanied by > great social distress. I believe that we're in another such period.
I agree completely with this, Keith. And I don't think we will find the vision or the answers we need in the old formulations of left and right, etc., or divisive advocacy. I have been examining what I think of as the biggest and most important questions, that have to do with the evolution of our own species. I'm trying to a get a book about this pushed out the door. I don't know that there is any forum for discussion of this on the web, and part of what I plan to do is set up such a site/lists, etc. The goal, back to your point, is to influence in healthy ways the choices made at this turning point. Lawry
