http://www.alien-earth.org/forum/message.php?message=49131&mpage=1&showdate=9/5/09
it will only take ONE generation to change the world.
TOOLS of progress:
1. empathy;
the ability to refrain from premature judgment by figuratively putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. the ability to feel someone else’s emotional state and respond to it compassionately.
2. compassion;
to know that we are all ONE* is to care for another as you would wish to be cared for; to support all is to support one’s self and one’s society. to give (materially, kindness, empathy, service) is of the highest order.
(* planet, god, consciousness, aetheric star stuff, energy, species, gravitational pull on every object from every other object in the universe, mental abstraction, or whatever…)
3. humility;
to not live in docile subservience as to a god, but to live as a tempered god who shares responsibility for the universe and yet remains in conscious awe of the forces of nature, energetic exchange, the interconnectedness of all things, and our own misgivings and weaknesses on this earthly plane. to not trust the lies and temptations of the ego. to know that to misuse the resources of the earth, to harm the life cycle (including that of man), is to harm ourselves. to know that in science we are only looking at a limited approximation and that the only TRUTH is emergent, the sum of all causation.
4. emotional management;
learn to understand and deal with emotion, to be the master of it rather than its slave. learn to be grateful of negative emotional states, accepting them as challenges and learning experiences rather than judgments or condemnations. learn to differentiate between a true negative external stimuli and an internal one caused by lack of sleep, lack of proper diet, hunger, or stress. learn to know how to redirect uncontrolled emotion in either the positive or negative direction (every action has an equal and opposite reaction) and attempt to find stability and balance, know when to let the balance offset for life’s great texture, but being assured where emotional balance lies: a safe haven built on the knowledge that you are more than your physical mind, that there is more to you than a collection of thoughts and emotional reactions.
5. learning;
teach HOW to learn, how to enjoy learning, and HOW to apply and build on knowledge. instead of filling them with facts, teach them the joy of learning, then wind them up and set them free on a world ripe for the understanding. give them the tools. instead of only having an education ‘phase’ of life, make learning a lifetime achievement and free for anyone that wishes to better themselves. make the students responsible for helping and teaching each other rather than just doling out knowledge from a central authority.
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1-5. teach them to meditate
i assure you, in one generation we would have a whole different world. and the next generation would be even better.
some people refuse to learn
ever seen the spark of curiosity in a baby’s eye?
you think that spark dies on its own,
or do we snuff it out?
The problem is you are all entrenched into societal beliefs by the very same spouses/children you seek to liberate.
when you have the tools you see the societal blueprint, you act within it, but you constantly maintain and repair it – you move with it as a society and it constantly changes for the better.
the only reason WE as a society are so beholden to our social construct is because we don’t realize there is one and that it influences us (or that other cultures can have a different one, and that that is ok.) like advertising, when you are fully aware of their profit motive and desire to manipulate, you don’t fall for it anymore. you may still like a product and want it, but you aren’t falling for the construct, you can still want the end result/product.
we can live by a standard, indoctrinate the new software, and constantly upgrade the program to get better and better. AI teaching itself through iteration. It’s already happening now.
and once we happen on a blissful, productive society that cares for everyone and exists harmoniously, who the hell is going to say, “excuse me, but i liked it better when it sucked.”
not in the interests of the controllers, sorry
the controllers are starting to realize that their system is unsustainable. that ignoring the needs of the earth is perilous, that ignoring the needs of the people is costly, that promoting ignorance puts a drag on the whole society. that everything is interconnected and that all these things threaten them as much as us.
and then the controllers realize the solution: that doing the right thing and freedom and equally sharing resources and responsibility is better for everyone, even them.
and then it happens.
I’d be more favorably impressed if Franken had simply said something like, “It is not the responsibility of the U.S. Government to provide for nor regulate the health care of its citizens.”
Of course, he didn’t say anything close to that, and while he is a U.S. congressman yet apparently totally ignorant of the U.S. Constitution, I’m not favorably impressed by him at all.
…doesn’t look like an angry mob either (but makes for a catchier headline).
i’ve been told the calm demeanor of the crowd is a ‘wisconsin thing.’ maybe they’ve got kinder angry mobs than other places. 
as far as responsibility goes, we have a moral responsibility to raise up every man woman and child to be the best that they can be, to not be born into economic and mental servitude, and in turn we will flood the human race and our own futures with riches.
a world of economic competition is a world of strife and waste and until the day we cast it off we will always be reactionary animals.
“… we have a moral responsibility to raise up every man woman and child to be the best that they can be, to not be born into economic and mental servitude, and in turn we will flood the human race and our own futures with riches.”
Yes – WE do, not the Federal government. Entirely different. Having the feds do it puts us and our children into economic and mental servitude (and moral depravity), which is obviously what we do not want.
I agree that we need to decentralize function back to the people; that we can not only provide all required services, but that we can distribute the functions of government and education as well. I look at wikipedia, youtube, the internet, and open source software as indicative trends where there is a centralized tool set, but where the form and function come from the many, not the one. I think to get from here to there we need this intermediary centralized step. Even without the idealistic vision of the future, the economic and mental costs of status quo are so genocidal that we must relent to change. Corporations, like insurance companies, unfortunately, aren’t as smart as some parasites: they will consume the host (us) for the good of the ‘investor’. We can take back what they have stolen, we can take back the responsibility that we have abdicated to government. If we stop encouraging an economic arena where only the ‘worthy’ are entitled to health and happiness.
…yeah, and it bugs the beep out of me that the government just gave away 100′s of billions of OUR dollars to big, dumber than a parasite, corporations (like insurance companies, banks, etc) that would be much better to have been left in ours and our children’s pockets. Giving money to a corporation that is “too big to fail” is just sooooo wrong.
We can hopefully take back what has been abdicated to government, but NOT by giving government more.
i not only agree, i think the entire financial ‘crisis’ is manufactured, but when we audit the fed we’ll find out that a billion dollars is meaningless anyway. just 0′s and 1′s with no economic foundation other than the indentured servitude it can engender. what matters to me is that we stop the suffering, start employing preventative medicine, help the people help themselves and give every opportunity for limitless, lifetime educations. figure out later what a dollar really means if we’d even need to.
the trick is: there are enough resources available (if managed properly) to feed, clothe, house, educate, medicate, service, every single man, woman and child in the world, but NOT if we compete for them and horde them. car lots and shelves full of unsold products is no benefit to anyone. % of costs going to insurance company profits and the filling out and submission of insurance paperwork is no benefit to us either. change is coming. it might hurt at first.
