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A Trans-Canada Wilderness Network by Evan Palmer
2007-06-13 03:35:00
Islands can be a stifling environment as prone to developing vulnerable and overly specialized creatures as beautiful and unique ones. Islands often suffer from a deficit of resources and the stultifying effect of too little space. We have created islands for our wildlife which are as limiting and ultimately dangerous to them as any pollution or over-trapping or over-hunting. Our big predators in particular need large tracts of land upon which to roam. The loss or diminishment of the big predators leads to an over-population of their prey which generally stresses the habitat and other species. A wilderness network would also allow all species and population groups to move around and intermingle.Let's press our government to create a Trans-Canada Wilderness Network for our wildlife. This can be laid down quickly in the less populated northern areas where existing parks can be joined to form large wilderness networks. We need to make the Wilderness Trail a land, water & airway for al...
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Beyond Comprehension by Evan Palmer
2007-06-11 02:55:00
Beyond in the sense of beyond any "normal" perception and conception. For example, consider the following extraneous tidbits of knowledge:A muon lives for 2 millionths of a second and then it decays More than 50 trillion solar electron neutrinos pass through the human body every second.The Sun consumes about a 650 million tonnes of fuel (protons) per secondIt is estimated that the average human adult body contains about 10 trillion cells.In the fully mature human lung, approximately 400 million alveoli provide a gas exchange surface of 100 to 150 m2.The radius of the observable universe is about 47 billion light years.These are facts that we can only know by extending our ordinary in-the-moment wisdom through mental constructs like mathematics and ingenious fabrications like electron telescopes. So it seems to suggest that we are extravagantly unprepared to understand our world the way we are. This in turn suggests that we can only progress by advancing in the endeavours of mental ...
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Fruit Flies Have Free Will by Evan Palmer
2007-05-27 02:26:00
If there is only one ultimate source, and the Theory of Everything has been trying to posit that for many years, then everything that exists is made of that "suchness". In some cases, we may call it a substance but it is more than that. And if that source has awareness and consciousness then everything that issues from it will have awareness and consciousness. And if that source has free will and is the embodiment and enabler of free will then everything that issues from it will have "free will". In that context, the conclusion by a group of scientists studying fruit flies that they are manifesting free will is not unbelievable. In fact, it should follow that in every case where there are two or more possibilities then there is an opportunity for free will. It may be the case that even at the atomic level, we will find that the "choices" being made by the electrons and protons and other particles are not governed by purely stochastic processes.At what point would the awareness or c...
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The Free Trade Lie by Evan Palmer
2007-05-21 23:42:00
In the dogma of the marketeers, free enterprise and unencumbered trade is the elixir of prosperity and the guarantor of freedom. In reality, it is no such thing. A great debt is owed to Chalmers Johnson in clearly and unequivocally exposing this truth in his book "The Sorrows of Empire". As he points out, "... none of the world's twenty-four reasonably developed capitalist nations... got where they are today by following... globalization doctrine." (pg 262, Metropolitan Books, 2004)In fact, those countries, led by the United States, preach and pontificate to the poorer nations, telling them self-serving falsehoods while denying them the same growth and maturation techniques that they used; what Chalmers Johnson categorizes as "kicking away the ladder".Yet, "between 1790 and 1940, the United States was probably the most highly-protected economy on earth" (pg 263).Thus, for 150 years, with the multitudinous resources and advantages that the United States had, it still had to protect...
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The Urge to End History by Evan Palmer
2007-05-03 01:51:00
The urge to end history gets posited in various ways, in isolation, in volleys, as ultimate desolation, as eden remade, but its main attribute is that it will end history, in that, the state we will find ourselves, if we're alive, is one in which no appreciable change will any longer occur. Stripped of rhetoric, it's a conclusion to the human journey on this planet, a solid self-sustaining stasis. This resolution, which some fervently want, is the emergence of a national or global community where major sources of confrontation have been addressed or, more likely, negated.They are Utopians and whether that Utopia is good or bland, it will be certain and orderly. And this is not a bad thing except for the fact that Utopians with power seem to differ from Utopians without power. Utopians with power seem to be revolutionists at heart and they are the ones who will make history even when they are seeking to end it... in their favour.Most people are happy with steady, incremental progre...
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More Big Lies by Evan Palmer
2007-04-30 01:01:00
They lie softly, they lie boldly, they steal everything we own.It's called "globalization" but it should be called "gobblezation" characterized by greed and waste and self-serving urgency.gobbleto seize upon eagerlyTo devour in greedy gulps.To take greedily; grab:To eat greedily or rapidly.globalizationto extend to other or all parts of the globegrowth to a global or worldwide scalemake worldwidegobblezationTo devour the world or its resources in greedy gulpsTo greedily or rapidly grab & extend to other or all parts of the globeIt's called "privatization" but it should be called "piratization" because it is bold theft characterized by phony logic served with platitudes and violence or threat of violence.pirateany plunderer, predator, etc.to commit piracy upon; plunder; rob.One who preys on others; a plunderer.privatizationto transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprisechanging something from state to private ownership or control The conversion of a...
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VA Tech Tragedy - More Guns is not the Answer by Evan Palmer
2007-04-18 02:39:00
The American NRA vultures and their "cold dead" supporters have emerged again after the VA Tech tragedy to bruit their nauseating mantra of "more guns equals more safety". Several of their mouthpieces and like-minded bloody-minded sympathizers have stated that all would be well if only everyone, or mostly everyone, was armed because then the VA Tech killer would have been shot outright. It appears that it has occurred to no-one in the NRA movement that if this disturbed young man had not been able to buy a gun, let alone a high-powered Glock, then this tragedy may not have happened. He may have had time to be diagnosed and treated and the young people that he shot might be alive. What rational reason does a person have for buying a Glock? The competence of the VA Tech administration (and possibly the campus & local police) is a separate matter. How what was initially reported as a single homicide can be treated as an event that would not interrupt the normal course of events at the...
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Colonel Westhusing, Jane Jacobs, & the Guardian Moral Syndrome by Evan Palm
2007-04-07 01:14:00
-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->Most of the time, death is an occasion for sadness. How much sadness will vary with how close one was to the deceased, the circumstances of their passing, and the character and charisma of the departed.It is always more poignant when the person was young. or there was a miscarriage of justice or the person had special talents or genius such as in music or writing or, in the particular case I want to touch on, in philosophy. The world is short of philosophers. It always has been and I think it always will be. If we had more philosophers, and we listened to them more carefully, the world would be a dramatically improved place. Every time a philosopher dies, there should be a pause in the life of a country and a summing up. At age 44, Colonel West husing was found dead in Baghdad, It was ruled a suicide and appears to have been the result of deep depression and disgust brought on by the conduct of Amer...
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"300" as Propaganda by Evan Palmer
2007-03-18 03:24:00
Is it pure coincidence that of all the movies that could have been made, based on either fictional or historical stories or that often perplexing mixture of both, that we are now served up a cartoon-based version of the Battle of Thermopylae? Can there be any doubt that by whatever various dark circuitous routes, the psych-ops folks of the American military and intelligence cyclops have managed to serve up a mass-market propaganda movie that helps prepare the American and world public for a war on Iran?One of the effects of the world becoming a smaller place is that it is more difficult to get away with the subterfuge, claims or "stories" that you may have formerly gotten away with or to confine the "message" to its target audience.The movie in question is "300" which is a visually-riveting portrayal of the Battle of Thermopylae and particularly the 300 Spartans of King Leonides' bodyguard. They, the only Spartans at the Battle, are treated as the real Greeks (and men) and the Pers...
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Why did Germany attack the USSR on June 22, 1941? by Evan Palmer
2007-03-16 13:58:00
As has been said many times before, history is written by the victors; and, in those histories, some things will never get recorded while others will be recorded in a biased, often distorted, way. In the post-war realm of courtrooms and the world stage, it is rare to see prosecutions of the victors for doing the same actions that see the losers jailed and/or hung. The crimes and indiscretions of the victors will likely stay secret for a long time. The new truths being delayed long enough so that all attendant benefits have been gained by various interested parties. For example, many existing histories of the second World War make no mention of the breaking of the Enigma code and its immense role in the waging of the Allied western campaign. Its revelation is fairly recent. It is easy to assume that many other actions and records remain hidden? There's no doubt that there will be numerous other revisions to the historical record but because each set of ?facts? and attendant myths...
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How To Make a Universe by Evan Palmer
2007-03-13 23:37:00
It's completely undefined and open. There is no thing. No time. No space. No existence. What is your starting point? Only the original being exists. The original will. The original intention which can manifest itself as you desire and purposefully think it.You, as a co-creator, want to make a glorious creation. You want "creatures" in it. They will not only be "of" the original being but they will "be" the original being because everything anyone creates is made from and continues to be the original being. The original being has "free will" and therefore all creatures have it. This over time also makes them co-creators - they also make "creations" which can only exist of and from the original source, the ground of all being.You as co-creator want your realm to be believeable for your creations, its inhabitants. You want your creations to be enraptured and enthralled by it. It might be good if the creations give thanks to their creator; but, it is redundant after all.Some of the co-...
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Nothing to Choose From - The Infinitude of Discriminations by Evan Palmer
2007-02-11 19:18:00
Probably the most fertile ground for discord in any society is that of treating one person differently from another because of what is construed to be an invalid, unjust or unfair reason.This treatment can refer to a person to person exchange, or between a person and an institution or society or government and on and on. Once you start down the path of discerning discriminations, it really is boundless.There you quickly find yourself at the threshold of having to have a valid basis for deciding against someone about anything. This is usually a good thing but it can become unmanageable and disorienting especially when it's rarely discussed at any length or depth. The "valid" in "valid basis" is a malleable word. It needs defining and examples. As does "construed" because that depends a great deal on who's doing the construing.We're only going to scratch the surface although there may be a way to cut through the gordian knot of discrimination. For any person in question regard...
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Satan's Little Helpers by Evan Palmer
2007-02-01 02:36:00
This is "what if" time as in "what if they're right?" and "if so, how can that be?"Let's start with "they" being the numerous sages who have claimed that what we see, hear, feel, smell & taste is an illusion. Note that it is not that it's like an illusion or that it's partly an illusion or that it's often an illusion. It is completely an illusion.Let's add in the "they" who argue for the primacy of mind and theories about a holographic universe. Thought and feeling providing direction to the warp & woof of the world; providing impulse and fabric as well.How does "god" or "true nature" or "supreme being" fit into this?Here is a speculation based on various inputs & thoughts & intuitions.Any name is too small to describe or contain or explain "true nature" and can only point at the inexpressible and ineffable suchness of it. It is all-encompassing, all-animating, all-sustaining, all-aware, all-knowing. It is beyond form and before form. It is everything and allows for everyt...
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Artifacts of Vision by Evan Palmer
2007-01-21 22:32:00
The greater the level of interaction we find we have with what we "see", the greater the question is as to what we do not "see" and how and why we "see" the way we do.The eye was the thing that most amazed Charles Darwin on his epoch-making sea journey and, indeed, this amazing organ is the gateway for some 80% of an average human's perception. However, as magnificient as it is, the eye is only part of the visual cognition process. Additionally, there are the optic nerves, one per eye, and the brain itself. There is also a nebulous thing called attention which calls forth other phenomena like the "will" and emotions and beliefs that colour, even shape, what we see. We "know" what we see because it's been subtlely (and not-so-subtlety) explained to us until our agreement is effortless and unquestioned. Expectation plays a huge role in what we see; it does help us to process more quickly and more effectively, however, it can be more what we (think we) should see than what we conscio...
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The Idea of the Vanguard by Evan Palmer
2007-01-21 03:45:00
There are many questions that surround leadership. Who leads? How do they gain & maintain authority? How do they get people to follow & accept their orders? Or, more fundamentally, how do they assume power?In the context of a social revolution, there are numerous steps: the building of a mythology, the laying of an organizational foundation, the cultivation or manipulation of the political & economic climate, the readiness to seize & exercise power, a convincing vision & plan and the means to effect a change in societal perception & control.Key to all of the above is an organization, a political party, or more accurately, a vanguard within that party or movement. That is, a cohesive group who are determined & effective, who define & lead the transformation. And who are invariably small in number.One of the most difficult challenges facing any leadership is effecting change. The challenge is only exacerbated by the fact that most change is ill-considered and wrong-hea...
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Who really broke the Enigma code! by Evan Palmer
2007-01-10 02:40:00
Who really broke the Enigma code!You may have heard about Bletchley park. You may have also heard about Alan Turing and other British mathematicians who worked on Enigma. Since the secrets surrounding Enigma started emerging in the early 1970s, the main focus has been on Britian's role in cracking this supposedly unbreakable code.Rejewski. Rozycki. Zygalski.It's a rare person who will have any clue as to who these people are other than assuming they are Polish (they are).These are the Polish mathematicians who really broke theEnigma code along with the help of a small Polish contingent of about 60 persons including those who risked their lives to retrieve a broken Enigma machine from a German military vehicle accident.The Poles worked with French intelligence and using their own data & the French information and advanced mathematical analysis, they broke the code prior to the start of the second world war. Constant effort was needed as the Germans kept refining the machine - addin...
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The Abode of Consciousness by Evan Palmer
2007-01-02 18:37:00
A key question regarding consciousness is if there is, in fact, an abode for it. Does consciousness reside in any one place? Another issue related to the abode metaphor is if there's ever an overlap of consciousnesses. Is it proposed that consciousness is one entity's perception and awareness of itself and its environs but that there is never a merging of one consciousness into another? Or, that if there is any type of merging that it's rare. Another way of approaching the mystery of consciousness is as a process like the shining of a light in the dark. The existence around us to be perceived and aware of is there and our consciousness is whatever part of that "is-ness" that we alight on. We're consciously aware of that and nothing else. Our consciousness patches & remembers the various instances where our consciousness has alighted and that's how we gain an impression of wholeness or movement or continuity.Other potential aspects of consciousness revolve around different level...
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Setting Targets in the Fight against Corruption by Evan Palmer
2006-12-29 17:24:00
As any dictionary will inform, corruption is a diminishment of integrity and it's an inducement to break the rules often by improper means such as bribery or blackmail. But, it's more, it's a subversion of the rule of law; it's a step towards a criminal society run by crooks & thugs; as harmless as corruption might seem under some circumstances, it represents a menace to good government. It is not something that can be safely ignored or minimized.It can be stated without equivocation that corruption exists and also that, in most cases, it needs official cooperation or protection to exist. The vexing question is how is it to be discovered and removed?A technique used in debugging software might help - one establishes the expected number of bugs and then it's decided whether to find a certain percentage of the bugs or to vigorously search for a set time period. This target-setting technique might be useful in rooting out corruption.Let's say, for example, that there are 15,000 p...
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Unbridled Corruption & Abuse of Power - Naked Shorting
2006-12-27 18:27:00
The bedrock of society is trust and this requirement especially extends into the financial realm. Yet, it is precisely there where it often fails because the tentacles of greed, desire & fear squeeze it out of the unsteady converts to honesty. Their religion is "self and what can be gotten away with" and they rapidly crumble under any ethical pressure. With rampant corruption, mostly hidden or obfuscated, and its attendant abuse of power, it's difficult to choose a starting point so letting chance play its part, we settle on a story identified by "Project Censored" and listed as #18 in the "Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006".It appears to be a variation on the theme of the rich get richer. It's called "Naked Short ing".Naked shorting is a shell game - you sell something you don't have - in this case, stocks; in fact, you don't even sell them, you borrow them; actually, you don't even do that - you pretend that you either have or will them; so maybe we can call it an IOU on a loan ...
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3rd Hint.... You might be in a Holographic Universe
2006-12-25 23:10:00
Whenever you have holes in a theory, you naturally suspect that the explanation is not quite all there. When the theory has to do with reality and consciousness then, of course, it's all the more important that it's addressed seriously, yet all the more likely it won't be, unless you can find a technique that allows almost anyone to see through the fault and understand, and be able to use, the new explanation.Some interesting tidbits in the assault on the contention that matter is the primary reality and everything including mind flows out of that.Our reality appears to be completely shaped by our organs of perception as we understand them. For example, humans have two eyes and this gives us the ability to see depth due to the overlap of the two fields of vision. No binocular vision, no depth of vision. Two interesting vision-related phenomena have been under study - one is called is binocular rivalry, the other is called stereopsis.Binocular rivalry refers to the situation where...
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Character-spotting...... Take 2
2006-12-25 17:50:00
There's always a pharisaic quality to these types of articles but I'm going to humbly proceed because allowing certain actions and words and other commentaries (or lack of) to pass without remark signifies acquiescence even tacit acceptance. Children are precious to most people in most societies. Children are also among the most vulnerable of any society. Typically, they are protected and nurtured.In this regard, statements, especially public statements, about children should never be damaging or invasive of their privacy.Let's contrast two such statements - one by Eddie Murphy, another by Ethan Hawke.In an interview, Eddie Murphy stated: "But, you're being presumptuous because we're not together anymore and we don't know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test. You shouldn't jump to conclusions, sir."This was in discussing his relationship with Melanie Brown, her pregnancy and her claim that he is the father.At this point, Mr. Murphy does not know whether...
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Mental Illness Casts a Wide Net
2006-12-22 00:53:00
Says who?In a holographic universe mind is primary and therefore, mental illness is a more direct malady than, for instance, having a sore back. In our common understanding however, mental illness is still a mystery and without pharmacology, there probably would have been almost no progress in treating it. Our approach is mostly empirical and based on a material explanation. We give a person substance "A" and note its effects and if it's sufficiently helpful then it gets prescribed. Does it mean that this manifestation of mental illness is caused by a lack of substance "A" or that the substance acts on the conditions that are causing it? That all depends on the delicate art of correlation.It gets difficult because so many substances, or lack of, can cause similar effects. For example, how many substances or other inputs can cause anxiety? That's why we can have popularly prescribed anti-depressants that make people suicidal. Most of us would consider suicidal thoughts or ac...
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Canadian Head of State
2006-12-16 23:18:00
Never AnyOtherWayDespite repatriation of the constitution, Cana da still maintains the Queen of England (and Scotland, Wales and other various places) as the official Head of State . It is long past the date when Canada should Canadian ize this ceremonial but nonetheless important position. This in turn would precipitate changes to a raft of other symbols and emblems associated with the Head of State such as currency, stamps, specialty flags, & names of military units to name a few. It is proposed here that we keep the ceremonial institution of Head of State but Canadianize it by having a first nations Chief as Canada's Head of State - where first nation would include the Inuit. ?Your Excellency? would replace ?Your Majesty? and other similar changes. Ships at sea would go from ?HMS Canada? to something like ?CCS Canada? where CCS stands for ?Canadian Confederation Ship?. A Canadian Head of State would not be a heriditary position along it might be a lengthy tenure,...
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ARA - A Country Called Refuge ... The Way It Can Be by Evan Palmer
2006-11-19 15:59:00
AHavenForAll There is a country, a new country that doesn't exist yet, where anyone is accepted even if, in some cases, they may not be actively welcomed. It's name is "ARA" which is Latin for "Refuge" - over time, it has become the new beacon of hope for millions.ARA is a mid-sized country with an ocean coast and no obvious riches. It will not extradite anyone although it does have normal laws and will imprison certain types of law-breakers. It will prosecute within ARA for serious crimes committed outside its borders. Almost exclusively this is where there is a loss of life although, in exceptional cases, it will prosecute where there has been a major impairment of life: such as, pollution & crimes against the environment or theft & embezzlement where the crime has affected thousands or more. Those found guilty will be imprisoned, or otherwise penalized, in ARA accordingly to its laws.There are a type of law in ARA called the "forever laws". These are laws that require no in...
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Character-spotting ..... Take 1
2006-11-16 14:12:00
I knowWhatI like There are always stories that make one think of character - that elusive quality which we value and seek but typically understand only in an oblique way especially given that we don't really think about it much or deeply. Maybe we should.For example - there's a current story about a young celebrity singer who's recently divorced from a less well-known former dancer / would-be singer. They have two children. The former dancer also has two children from a previous marriage. He and she are their twenties. Apparently, he has threatened to make public a private sex tape they made in the first few weeks of their marriage unless paid a huge sum of money and granted full custody of their two children.If this doesn't make you think of character then nothing will. That one can have two failed marriages and four children and still be in your twenties, does not speak well about oneself. People have to assume there is cause and the cause when boiled down to its essentials wi...
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Unsurvivable Weapons - Nuclear
2006-11-13 15:29:00
NotJustUnthinkable Herman Kahn wrote a book a while ago which he called "Thinking about the Unthinkable" and one of the basic premises it examined is that a war using nuclear weapons could be fought & won. We know, but have seemingly forgotten, that this is not true.Part of the reason we know it's untrue is because while waiting for a Martian dust storm to clear, the scientists tending to a 1971 Mariner 9 space probe decided to do some extra-curricular investigations. Their resultant calculations highlighted that the dust blocked enough sunlight to significantly lower the temperature on the martian surface. Similar conclusions were reached by German scientists a decade later regarding raging global forest fires that would be caused by nuclear blasts. This led to a concerted effort to study the phenomenon of atmospheric particulates and their effects, especially on sunlight reaching the surface and the life dependent on it. Gwynn Dyer talks about this in the latest edition of his bo...
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Future World
2006-11-12 01:33:00
What'llItBe? Every once in a while, each of us will get a flash of the future, where we perceive something on another level and we are as sure as we can be that this thing we see will occur or exist in the future.It may be an image we see in a movie or that we imagine while reading a book or staring into space but when we do see it, we immediately feel that it will exist just as we see it sometime in the future.If we could collect all these special instances from various credible & incredible persons, it would make for a very interesting document I'm sure.There have been any number of psychological & sociological experiments that have tried to explore our views on what's to come. Most are fairly ordinary and trying to look some months or 1, perhaps 2, years ahead. Others, however, are quite the opposite and depending on how much faith we put into them may, in fact, shake our conception of this world and time & space.One investigation was conducted by Chet B. Snow & Helen ...
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The Magic of Polarization
2006-11-11 13:27:00
It'sSoEasy Polar ization is part of a duality puzzle we continuously find ourselves immersed in but, for the most part, it remains focused on our conscious roles in magnifying any separations we discover. It's about intensifying divisions, celebrating threats and exhorting to action - be it preventive or corrective; in many cases, it fosters aggression, pure and simple.The conscious role in polarization, among other things, is the public discourse and accompanying actions, yet, as with all else, most of the activity is beneath the surface. The conscious component acts as a catalyst at some points, a leader at other points, also as a follower, a resister, perhaps an opponent. It seems though that our motivation and intention, whether examined or not, is what drives the process the most - it colours it, animates it, shapes it.If our intentions are for what we might categorize as the greater "good" then polarization will amount to a radicalization in that direction - action for good, ...
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Best We Forget
2006-11-04 03:20:00
CheeringForTheHomeTeamThere is always a waxing and waning in the effusion of patriotic fervour associated with Remembrance Day. It has an uptick when there is an anniversary or when there are Canadian troops committed somewhere. It tends to drop out of consciousness when times are good.While some sit back now and make poetic statements about freedom and sacrifice, there is not much talk about the futility of many wars or the bloodthirstiness of their prosecution. There is also not much in the way of mass media coverage of how specific wars got started or who benefited financially or what nations advanced their causes or sphere of power.It was said that many of those who marched off to World War I were enthusiastic and anticipated being home and victorious in a few weeks. It was an adventure and a chance to make triumphant noises over a prostrate enemy while crowing about British or French or German greatness.We do want to remember and having a day dedicated to it certainly helps but...
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Dueling with Duality
2006-10-21 22:15:00
StateAbsenceRelationshipContextAwareness Dual ity is a natural state for people. We learn that basic "fact" early on and never quite seem to shake it. Typically, we never have reason to. It is a state where we feel, without obvious effort on our part, that almost every thing we sense has something which stands opposite to it or in opposition to it or apart from it in some relationship.Duality seems to have aspects of a "state", aspects of a "relationship" and also to merely reflect the presence or absence of something where we often feel that the absence is a force or substance of equal stature to the one we sense by its presence.For example, cold is the absence of heat. Heat is the presence of energy, cold is its absence. Yet, we feel cold as a force on its own even when factually it's nothing, it's the absence of heat.Another clear example, darkness is the absence of light. Again, we usually feel darkness as a force on its own but it's an absence we detect and to which we react....
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