The vast majority people in the world are good. The world is fucked up because of the 'direction' of Society, 'rule overrules right'.
"there is no changing this from the inside." - Arch Identifying an element of that force with an observable equation (rule overrules right) does give us a perspective with which to formulate a change in the system. peace & Love On Jun 29, 6:55 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I remain a believer in wisdom and know of decent, courteous judges. > In the UK and my experience more widely, the problem is access to some > point of worthwhile judgement. We are generally not able to get > information, conduct enquiry or get legal representation in order to > put a case. I would generally prefer a type of democracy based more > on access to justice and less on elected representatives living on > planet politics. Somehow, we need better, more open dialogue about > what is going on and what we might do to prevent the abuse of power. > One problem I don't hear addressed much is that even in dreaming of > anything radically different we exclude mechanisms that won't go away > and will revert us to default systems, including the one of revolution > just turning the circle 180 degrees. > Sociology has dreamed itself up its own dark regions through cultural > identity fetishes and endless failures in listening and recognising > the need for time-bound decision-making and observation. Generally, > we are teaching people to be the horrible bureaucrats who won't act on > evidence and simply appease the system and now corrupt bosses whilst > kids die and the intergenerational transmission of criminal misery > continues in front of their noses. The judges Molly mentioned are > always good at critical reasoning and we have almost stopped teaching > this and confidence in it entirely. We are also passing a good 70% of > people who can't begin to think for themselves, and seeing academic > staff drawn from this pool a few years later. I'm out of it - there > is no changing this from the inside. > > On 30 June, 00:11, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You didn't answer anything, you took a poke at the messenger :-) > > > peace & Love > > > On Jun 29, 2:02 am, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 29 Jun., 07:21, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote:> to not answer = > > > 'no' answer > > > > > Doesn't it? :-) > > > > Sometimes a question is not answered because readers don't consider it > > > worth answering. > > > > *** (wonders) Why am I answering this? ... *** > > > > Francis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
