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INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
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Civil Rights - Poetry To The Rescue !
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part [2] A vision for the future...
>* Introduction
Our almost universal tendency to fragment the world and ignore the dynamic inter-connectedness of all things is responsible for many of our problems, not only in science, but in our lives and our society as well.
For instance ;
We believe we can extract the valuable parts of the Earth without affecting the whole.
We believe we can deal with the various problems in our society, such as crime, poverty, and drug addiction - without addressing the problems in our society as a whole, and so on.
Our current way of fragmenting the world into parts not only doesn't work, but may even lead to our extinction.
The purpose of life is to learn.
When we out-grow any given set of conceptual pidgeon holes we must always be prepared to move on, to advance from illumination to illumination.
For our purpose [reason for being] appears to be as simple as it is endless ;
We are, as the Aboriginies say - just learning how to survive in infinity.
>* A vision for the future...
One vision for the future : a society where light and dark harmonize, where all is allowed, and yet all is respected, where rules aren't broken because they are agreed upon, and where a unity of sorts exists.
If we could achieve this, it would be a valuable and priceless creation in the annals of time, carefully treasured and cherished.
We could offer a vision of inspiration ; as a modeling society where different people are a result of each others abilities to create, taking all their talents and building something unique from them.
One repeats experience to learn the lesson, not to create the same outcome again and again.
Ideally, when one learns a lesson as an individual, a community, a world ; one changes the outcome of the experience.
Then dramas need no longer be replicated.
Embracing a sense of trust will assist the vision to grow from moment to moment ; allowing in new ideas of what you would like the world to be.
This vision is imperative :
It has room for all people, young and old, all colours, and all species as well.
We must find a way to blend everyones talents, because everyone is an equal in this process.
We need to trust the process and allow it to unfold.
Majesty is ours.
We live in a world which is largely dominated by un-accountable private tyrannies.
What is needed is a sustained public demand for a liberation [freeing up] of law and technology ; that will disarm the corporate power + ideologies that turn nature against man - or , man against nature...
We are not going to be able to build a new kind of society ['world'] without using whatever we can :
ideas, art, knowledge, skills, or just plain old fragile love, how we treat people, how we help people.
Charity is the key.
For Instance :
[1] Censorship and Free Speech: "The arts are the rain forests of society.
They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger".
The real reason for censorship, whether it's the direct censorship of the state, or academia's censorship-by-dismissal :
The less you allow to be expressed, the more alone and cut off people feel.
When certain feelings are unexpressed in the culture, people think those feelings are bad or crazy, and so they trust their feelings less ;
hence they're more vulnerable to pressure from above.
Whatever its starting point and expressed intention, the end of the censor's road is repression of "dangerous" ideas - not only about sex but about morals, politics, art and life.
Opposition to censorship must inevitably involve us in defending things and people whom we may dislike and disapprove of [sometimes passionately].
Voltaire's well known saying that "I detest what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" may seem trite to us but is as appropriate as it ever was.
[2] ...and yes, of course there's other things, issues, and places to be...
>* Conclusion
Governments around the globe are rushing to barricade their borders, dam the flow of foreign data, and create a new world information order.
For good reason: an uncensored Net connection can be as deadly to a 20th century government as the bubonic plague was three centuries ago.
The infection cyberspace spreads today is far more virulent than the bubonic plague.
Anathema to government, the 'net carries the virus of freedom.
Additional links :
[1] Electronic Frontiers Australia : www.efa.org.au/
[2] The Plague of Freedom : Declan McCullagh : www.eff.org
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[part 3] The end is the beginning...
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