CRISIS - CRISIS - CRISIS

The paramount need for an INTEGRAL approach to address … the crises of politics, science & religion - is well exemplified by ALL that has been written here - blog & comments alike - particularly when one considers the global issues of concern that Colin Mason has so lucidly brought to our attention in his - A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE surviving the 2030 SPIKE

Herein lies THE seeds of an answer to the question …
 
                                              ” WILL our children be their slaves ?? ”

AND 99 years later - after Hong Kong was restored to Chinese rule in 1997 artists feared that their activities might be censored in line with mainland Chinese cultural policy, and a new level of social and political concern became evident in the work of younger choreographers such as Helen Lai, Danny Yung (co-founder of Zuni Icosehedron), and Jacky Yu (founder of E-Side Dance Company).

Rosalind Newman, who taught at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts from 1989, founded her own company in 1999, Dance HK/NY. In 2000 the region hosted a European Union festival of modern dance.

States of Fear: Science or Politics? - Question and Answer

Our members of parliament (MPs) now are largely professional politicians, which is the root of the problem. They go into politics to make, if not money, then certainly a decent living. Because they are no longer considered to be implicitly honourable they have to enter details of their earnings and spendings in all sorts of registers, where they can be policed like convicts on parole. Desperate to raise cash for campaigning or for their parties, they seem to have abdicated a sense of what is proper or right, and instead suck in the money from whichever reservoir happens to offer it.

If you really want to be immiserated in gloom, go to a library and look up an MP at random in Dod’s Parliamentary Companion, and just see the sort of person you are dealing with. They boast about careers as student politicians. They have worked as research assistants and special advisers and have been local councillors. And that’s just the Tories: Labour and Lib Dem MPs tend to be even less qualified, unless you count working for a trade union or lecturing in an ex-polytechnic as a measure of greatness.

Our coarsened nation is thus matched with coarsened politicians. The few who are not stand out like beacons, and we revere them. The rest are grasping, expensive for the state to run, achieve little, and are rewarded chronically for failure. They have little idea how to behave, are incapable of acting decently when found out in doing wrong, and see no harm in consorting with the most shocking people. That is where professionalism has got us: politics is no longer a fit calling for a respectable young or middle-aged person.

And as we survey this swamp of oily people on the make, whatever can it portend for democracy ?

                

             Simon Heffer | THE DAILY TELEGRAPH  | Wednesday, December 5, 2007

TRUTH is best understood as …

an actual direction of evolution in consciousness & culture.

                       Steve McIntosh - Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution

We LIVE in a state of emergency: and we are GETTING ANGRIER

Having just got around to reading  Jasper Becker's book called THE CHINESE, following on from his Hungry Ghost's: China's Secret Famine , one cannot come to any other conclusion than that the state of the world is so sickening and so unbelievable … but this IS, of course, how it was anticipated 2B … & the justification for an individual & collective mind-set switch.

… in the face of …

You know the litany, pollution, global warming, the administration in the US for the last 8 years and its domestic and international policies, but there is more. War. War in Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, Sudan (today’s government attack on a refugee camp) and elsewhere. Armed conflict in many, many other places. Frequent examples of crimes against humanity, including what I believe, for the first time I have been aware of it, such crimes committed by Americans, at least with the approval, support and urging of the political leadership of this country. Instable governments, even today in Pakistan, a country that has only recently moved from military dictatorship, as benevolent as it tended to be. The energy crisis in the face of growing demand. The financial crisis with a threatened world-class recession, if not worse. A food crisis of rising prices and local/regional scarcity. And a crisis in ethics, morality and leadership in the world of business that has contributed so mightily to many of these crises.

” Total household debt is the same in the UK as in the US. But the US has 5 times the population therefore the Briton is 5 times more personally indebted than the American.

If the US Treasury has to go to such enormous lengths to prop up mortgage banks devastated by a debt-propelled housing crash, how much further will the British Treaury have to go in order to bail out a banking and propery sector reeling under five times as much debt as in the US?

This is the big unanswered question, and gives us an idea of the black hole into which the British economy is staring…  ”

                                                                                                         Peter B.

Fantasy finance , as Jeff Randall reports today in The Daily Telegraph …

cuts many of the giants of global banking down to size …

BUT Capitalism, however painful,  in its CONSCIOUS CAPITALIST form  …

remains as the only financial mechanism by which the global community can survive.

WHERE NEXT ?  … IS there a doctor in the house ?

… in the meantime If you were surprised by the financial crisis, wait until you hear what's coming next …