Hi Rob, This is helping :-)
"Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the seeds of mistrust between those you would rule over: as Machiavelli said, tyrants do not care if they are hated, so long as those under them do not love one another. Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in Western popular culture, but, in reality, cynicism in average people is the attitude exactly most likely to conform to the desires of the powerful – cynicism is obedience." http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/optimism-as-a-political-act/2009/01/04 I wouldn't say that I have reached a point of no return, but I would say that it is important to feel a remorse for those who have been extricated and maimed by these disgusting people. I agree that cynicism is a type of obedience and would not consider it to be a useful or positive behaviour at all. My pain is nothing compared to their reality, but I will use my empathy, appreciation and respect of their humanity to stir my own form of energy to change things... marc > The excellent p2p foundation blog (subscribe! subscribe!) had a relevant > post today - > > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/optimism-as-a-political-act/2009/01/04 > > "“Pessimism is a luxury we can only afford in good times, in difficult > times it easily represents a self-inflicted, self-fulfilling death > sentence." > > - Rob. > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
