Selma:
I would like to comment about the prevalence of linear thinking
however:
The fact that so many people in our society are bound by linear
thinking and unable to even conceive of any alternatives to that is one of the greatest problems we face in our attempts to come up with alternative societies.>>>>>
I don't know what a "linear thinker" is. Perhaps it's one of the miniprofessors at the university down the road who is trying hard to get the kids he's teaching to understand the rudiments of biochemistry and doing some research at the same time. His promotion to professorlet depends on it. Or perhaps it's the lady who comes to the foodbank hoping she can pick up enough food to feed her unemployed husband and their kids. Maybe that way she can put together enough money to send her kids on one of the school trips. Or perhaps it's the overworked and overlooked corporate employee who didn't get the promotion he thought he deserved but who will keep working his ass off anyhow because he's now afraid of being downsized. His mortgage depends on it.
All of these people and others would love to meditate, contemplate, and help build a better world. The trouble is that they are just too damn busy hanging on in the one they have.
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I agree. I especially like the "in" instead of "to" in that last line, since often they are struggling to just slow their rate of descent.
Their? Mine, too.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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