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December 2008 
"Let the PEOPLE decide" ...
Posted on Jul 2nd, 2007
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Michael
Michael
Hong Kong
A baptism of fire for Gordon Brown the new Prime Minister & Jacqui Smith, his "fearless" new Home Secretary as - thankfully - two car bomb plots in central London failed to materialise & a third at Glasgow Airport resulted in NO loss of life - despite the fact that one of the perpetrators is critically ill in hospital from 90% burns sustained during the incident.
Apparently all of those, so far arrested, work for the NHS as Doctors or medical students - which would appear, at first hand, to present an entirely new dimension to the "problems". What price ID cards or indeed ANY form of appropriate action from an EU legal executive NOW ?
Torrential rain and flooding of a magnitude not recorded for more than 100 years and incident upon incident demonstrating examples of bravery, selfless caring, action & indeed humility - in the face of the worst of natural disasters.
The week-end was enhanced, however, by that 'spirit which is British' - manifested in the form
of a joke from Prince Harry - as he and his brother William opened the Wembly Diana concert to celebrate their mother's 46th birthday.
A fitting tribute to "the people's princess" - the people of Hong Kong - and the ever stalwart vigilence & fortitude of the peoples of the British isles.
ALL of which must surely be in synchronicity with a superb article by Peter Miller - in the July edition of National Geographic Magazine - entitled Swarm Theory - Ants, Bees and Birds teach us how to cope with a complex world.
Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University says -
"Ants aren't smart - Ant colonies are."
As individuals, ants might be tiny dummies, but as colonies they respond quickly and effectively to their environment. They do it with something called swarm intelligence.
One key to an ant colony, for example, is that no one's in charge. No generals command ant warriors. No managers boss ant workers. The queen plays no role except to lay eggs. Even with half a million ants, a colony functions just fine with no management at all-at least none that we would recognize. It relies instead upon countless interactions between individual ants, each of which is following simple rules of thumb. Scientists describe such a system as self-organizing.
Psyop Animation for MTV HD
The collective abilities of such animals - none of which grasps the BIG PICTURE but each of which contributes to the group's success - can surely be analagous to the interconnections & the inter-reactions of interconnections of the crowds of peoples - in Hong Kong, Central London, Glasgow & Wembly over the course of the week-end - in no unsimilar way than swarming honey bees, which frequently differ about where to establish a new nest - invariably choose the best site - or "the birds" flocking through the trees of the forest in Psyop's superbly integral artistic animation for high definition MTV - perform with balletic co-ordination.
Was not the 'crowd behaviour' of those 'iPhone queueing' outside Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York - in preparation for the next momentous stage of HOMO SAPIENS advanced capabilities of global interconnected communication - JUST one embroidered story of the ever evolving -
WEB of LIFE ?
As the celebrations of independence approach - and the words of the founding fathers ring loud in our ears - that ALL men are equal - let us pause for consideration of the fact that it has been estimated that the "global GDP" - better know as GWP - was $60 trillion in 2005.
That enormous production, divided between every living member of our species, comes to about $9,000 per head - imagine that as a NEW starting point and what the global collective could then DO to change the world for the mutual benefit of ALL.
We would of course TRULY have to consider turning Arms into Ploughshares
From the seeds of small acorns, large oaks grow ...
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This is a time when what IS on the inside is mirrored on the outside. We see in the current social and ecological breakdown the accurate reflection of worldviews that are based on notions of competitive advantage rather than collective benefit, material existence as something to throw away, and a perpetuation of the myth that what we think in our minds and feel in our hearts can be disconnected from the truth we declare to others.
- James O'Dea
wow….
Thanks Nishta … IT IS MY purpose to establish THIS zBlog as the THE most important to BE posted - in the context of “breaking down ALL the Tower of Ba'bel barriers” of religion, politiics & science - & ALL their diverse & mulititudinous sects, classes & categorisations.
YOUR own help and support throughout this process IS and most certainly ain't NO ISer -
& ALL other support from whatever “quarter” would BE most certainly appreciated.
ONE LOVE
in humility - michael
Sweet Michael…
Here's to free, beautiful butterflies who refuse to be framed…
http://littleskybear.zaadz.com/blog/2007/7/tori_amos_and_the_posse_of_love
POWER To The PEOPLE - who will inherit that which WE have created
“My thesis, in the simplest of terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful - the role of government, then, is to keep the peace.”
Leonard Read
Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.
Knowing their boundaries are respected, people think at their best.
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
In the context of Alexis de Tocqueville's keen observation …
“ Can it be believed that the democracy which has overthrown the feudal system
and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?”
and that the … self-interested rationalism of the modernist majority in America and Europe will [NOT] begin to see the wisdom and the necessity of global governance
as Steve McIntosh has suggested in his NEW book.
ARE WE beginning to SEE THE LIGHT ?
Yeh, I think so. And even if not all WE are seeing the light, the light from many WE is beginning to make the rest of the WE to see the light! Wonderful post, Michael!
Just as an ant colony consisting of 'dumb' ants exhibits complex, self-organizing structure that is reminiscent of consciousness, and just as the brain, composed of singular 'dumb' neurons produces (or is host to?) human consciousness, there might be next levels of consciousness on a planetary scale, made up of the behaviour of 6 billion people + all other ecosystems.
Just a thought…
just as the brain, composed of singular 'dumb' neurons produces (or is host to?) human consciousness, there might be next levels of consciousness on a planetary scale, made up of the behaviour of 6 billion people + all other ecosystems …
INDEED & ABSOLUTELY SO
“Gordon Brown simply can't sit still, let others shoulder some of the burdens of government and focus on a few big ideas. Nor can he trust markets to allocate capital and other resources to uses most desired by consumers. That's why he will urge his G8 colleagues to spend billions on projects HE DEEMS WORTHY. And that's why he has raised taxes to record levels and unleashed hostile tax collectors on a largely law-abiding public: he really believes that HE CAN SPEND PEOPLE's MONEY more productively, or in a morally superior manner, than they can.”
Irwin Stelzer
… and he wasn't even voted in as Prime Minister by THE PEOPLE of the UNITED KINGDOM
As an American I am not concerned about anything as ridiculous as his current sleep deprivation or assuming Obama has no political beliefs. He is human, physically and mentally. That he states as much is to his credit. I don’t want a hollow-headed military recruit or money driven investment banker running the country, nor a person spouting dogma or one so sure of himself that he can’t reflect on new and changing information and then, if need be, change his plans accordingly. As for core beliefs I am banking on his personal history and past actions. Partially growing up in a developing country undoubtedly provided him with a general sense of familiarity, understanding, and empathy with the majority of the earth’s inhabitants – all traits most presidents seem to lack as they call in air strikes. Working as a grass roots activist as opposed to a high money corporate shill after Harvard Law defines his populist concerns while his work on helping to disarm the ex-Soviet republics - which in turn helps disarm the US - sounds great for international well being and/or survival. And as for his general Senate record, well that speaks for itself.
No, he’s not Superman. He is a breathing, thinking, feeling human being. Sounds like me - and many more of the readers. Sounds like a good step towards representation. Sounds like a shot in the arm for real democracy.
Mark Norling
… but as Janet Daley has written in THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, we here in Britain must …
” Look across the pond for a lesson in listening to the people “
Even this “listening to the people” is vague. Self-Resonsibility….mature pro-active behavior is ncessary. Otherwise false populism will arise.
The real people power is embidied in early adapters too. And natural leadership.
A doctor has to listen to his patients too. But patients must make own decisions. And often the doctor has to contradict to childish and adolescent bahviort of patients too.
its all about taking responsibility in ones backyard and for all actions, no matter if at large sacale or in smaller enviromments.
BTW:
Looking across-not only the pond, but across Ärmelkanal between UK and Continental Europe could offer already enough additional lessons for BOTH sides:):)
YES, YES, YES, Albert, IT IS ALL about taking responsibility in ones backyard and for all actions, no matter if at large scale or in smaller environments …
BUT as Janet Daley has finished her article …
at least Britain still has some sense of the value of mass political participation - unlike the architects of the EU, who have given up on it altogether. Having decided that democracy equalled mob rule, they opted for a return to oligarchy. Britain does not have much time left to decide which political model it prefers …
and IF you think that “listening to the [ COMMON-SENSE sector of ] people” is vague, the top-down ME, ME, ME attitude of both UK & EU leaders, is most certainly NOT one that exemplifies Self-Resonsibility or mature pro-active behavior !!
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