All this writing about agression makes me want to look at it from newer perspectives, if possible.
There's this framework for considering waste as a resource: "if there are 5 kingdoms of life (bacteria, fungi, algae, plants, animals) then one kingdom should never be food to itself, but only to the others". http://www.zeri.org One example of NOT doing that is when we eat fish (I'm not a vegetarian, at least yet). It is usually fine, at least with fish and as far as I know. But applying the same principle we do get the ocasional Mad Cow Disease, which spreads when people feed sheep carcases to their cows. (It's a whole lot more detailed but this is the main idea: cows and sheep belong to the same "kingdom".) Another horrifying example is the neurological disease called Kuru-kuru, which is caused by a slow virus that is transmitted through canibalism (they eat their dead relatives' brains, virus included). So the idea some people are starting to (re)see is that it may be better to "treat waste as a resource" - as feed for *other* kingdoms. They give pig waste to bacteria, then bacteria waste to fungi, etc. It looks like a sensible way to eliminate what otherwise is toxic - if it stays within the very kingdom that generated it. I don't know if the idea is clear, as I myself am only starting to "get it". So, what about agression and jokes? Could it be that our toxic agressive energy is better used as a resource ... to be used somewhere else and not within the same place where it was generated? Could it be that, whenever we sense agression, we should look around to see if have not really invited the whole system into the same room, and we should widen things a bit? Maybe gender-related agressiveness is not gender related at all? Does this make any sense? Does it take us anywhere? You all know more. Lucas ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
