[FairfieldLife] Re: From a Canadian: Americanize Me? No Thanks
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do.rflex wrote: Americanize Me? No Thanks . When governance is hijacked by the likes of Bush and Brown there is only one possible outcome: massive, intractable, endemic corruption permeates the whole system. Stories following up on the Katrina catastrophe show that nothing has changed. Billions have been wasted, stolen or remain unaccounted for. The tragedy has been used as a useful crisis to dispossess thousands of New Orleans' poorest residents, privatize the education system and ensure that the wealthy get the benefit of public money. Stay clear of the collapse We can watch from this side of the fence as our neighbours self-destruct and we can have sympathy for the scores of millions who will suffer so that a tiny elite can become super-rich. But moving in with them won't help them. And it could destroy us. Mimicking their culture of fear, their self-destructive individualism, their suspicion of others, their isolation from the rest of the world, their minimalist decaying government, and their passive acceptance of extreme poverty will just help perpetuate their decline. ~~ Murray Dobbin More at link: http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/04/21/Americanized/ Last night I watched the movie Alien Versus Predator - Requium on BluRay and in the featurette the director points out that their motivation for the movie was to explore something they had noticed in the original movie Alien in that the ship that discovers an alien spacecraft is a corporate ship and that in the entire movie there is no mention of a government in that time in the future. IOW, everything is privatized. So they explore in the movie how it got that way. Interesting. Also I recall that Outland was really about how corporations used their people as slaves in that movie's case for mining. We really need to revolt to keep such a thing from happening. They're trying privatize everything especially municipal water systems. There are just some things that need to remain in the commons including our water, highways, mass transit, etc. There are things that are not wise for government to run that are better handled by small businesses (not large ones) and fill the need of those individuals who prefer to work for themselves. Plus it takes too much of a bureaucracy to try to run everything. The way things are going we'll wind up with one big corporation running everything (GE?) and that would be nothing more than corporate socialism. Fascinating... and grim to consider. 'Alien' was superb. To me, the only *real* refuge any more is the Divinity within. I used to expect that active Divinity to somehow show up externally, collectively, in the lives and social constructs of the people in this world. I recall reading something by Kurt Vonnegut where he kind of said the same thing - that earlier in his life he had expected somehow that the world would turn around - and that he had come to realize that it never will - and that the same old crap that has gone on for eons will still be going on for eons to come in this world, like a never-ending soap opera - far after he had died. And the only thing he could do meanwhile was to be 'nice' to others.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From a Canadian: Americanize Me? No Thanks
do.rflex wrote: Fascinating... and grim to consider. 'Alien' was superb. To me, the only *real* refuge any more is the Divinity within. I used to expect that active Divinity to somehow show up externally, collectively, in the lives and social constructs of the people in this world. I recall reading something by Kurt Vonnegut where he kind of said the same thing - that earlier in his life he had expected somehow that the world would turn around - and that he had come to realize that it never will - and that the same old crap that has gone on for eons will still be going on for eons to come in this world, like a never-ending soap opera - far after he had died. And the only thing he could do meanwhile was to be 'nice' to others. And some of us like to make trouble for the establishment. :)
[FairfieldLife] Re: From a Canadian: Americanize Me? No Thanks
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do.rflex wrote: Fascinating... and grim to consider. 'Alien' was superb. To me, the only *real* refuge any more is the Divinity within. I used to expect that active Divinity to somehow show up externally, collectively, in the lives and social constructs of the people in this world. I recall reading something by Kurt Vonnegut where he kind of said the same thing - that earlier in his life he had expected somehow that the world would turn around - and that he had come to realize that it never will - and that the same old crap that has gone on for eons will still be going on for eons to come in this world, like a never-ending soap opera - far after he had died. And the only thing he could do meanwhile was to be 'nice' to others. And some of us like to make trouble for the establishment. :) There are indeed fun ways to do it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: From a Canadian: Americanize Me? No Thanks
Intresting, MMY says that Age of Enlightenment will soon come.?? Histroricaly, there was never a Golden Age'. do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:11:29 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: From a Canadian: Americanize Me? No Thanks Fascinating. .. and grim to consider. 'Alien' was superb. To me, the only *real* refuge any more is the Divinity within. I used to expect that active Divinity to somehow show up externally, collectively, in the lives and social constructs of the people in this world. I recall reading something by Kurt Vonnegut where he kind of said the same thing - that earlier in his life he had expected somehow that the world would turn around - and that he had come to realize that it never will - and that the same old crap that has gone on for eons will still be going on for eons to come in this world, like a never-ending soap opera - far after he had died. And the only thing he could do meanwhile was to be 'nice' to others. * - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
[FairfieldLife] Re: From a Canadian: Americanize Me? No Thanks
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intresting, MMY says that Age of Enlightenment will soon come.?? Histroricaly, there was never a Golden Age'. Only Paramatma [God] is suitable to be with the mind, and anything else in worldly existence cannot satisfy the mind when it connects to it. ~~ Swami Brahmananda Saraswati do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:11:29 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: From a Canadian: Americanize Me? No Thanks Fascinating. .. and grim to consider. 'Alien' was superb. To me, the only *real* refuge any more is the Divinity within. I used to expect that active Divinity to somehow show up externally, collectively, in the lives and social constructs of the people in this world. I recall reading something by Kurt Vonnegut where he kind of said the same thing - that earlier in his life he had expected somehow that the world would turn around - and that he had come to realize that it never will - and that the same old crap that has gone on for eons will still be going on for eons to come in this world, like a never-ending soap opera - far after he had died. And the only thing he could do meanwhile was to be 'nice' to others. * - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
