From: Ant McWatt (antmcwatt@hotmail.co.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 14:53:16 BST
Gavin Gee-Clough stated August 4th 2005:
>Basically it comes down to keeping
>the 'blanket' (i love huckabees) perspective in mind
>all the time, and realising that it makes a lot more
>sense to treat yourself with love rather than fear.
Ant McWatt adds:
Just to clarify: the "Blanket" perspective in "I Love Huckabees" is the
notion that we (and everything in the universe) are just manifestations of
the same interconnected groundstuff as per Taoism and, of course, the MOQ.
>maybe that’s it, maybe that’s enough...eventually a few
>mindful individuals turn into millions...it's an
>exponential thing, especially with the internet.
Ant McWatt comments:
Yes, that's the benefit of a medium whose content is hardly subject to
corporate and government control. High quality ideas can spread without
little impediment and is why a movement such as permaculture is interesting.
If you grow much of your own fruit and vegetables that not only improves
the taste and freshness of the food that you and your family are eating (for
instance, most supermarket tomatoes in the UK are tasteless) but assists in
protecting the environment because less food needs to be moved - overall -
nationally and internationally.
Food that you don’t grow yourself needs to be examined for the growing
conditions of the produce (were toxic chemicals/steroids used in its
production?, were unsustainable resources such as the rain forest used?) and
of the working conditions and pay of the people who produced it (the
exploitation of the tea plantation workers in India are a good case in
point). Again, there’s a hundred Quality decisions we can make every day to
slowly improve the world.
>anyway...stay cool, be good and love each other cos
>the ride is going to get rougher. death throes are
>called that for a reason.
I’m probably a little bit more optimistic than Gavin. For instance, if the
trade union movement is looked at (say in the UK) and the average living
conditions for the general population are compared between 1885 (pre-trade
union era) and 2005, the improvements (certainly materially such as general
health, education and working conditions) have been tremendous. Once a
critical mass of people are committed to change a situation for the better,
there’s little any government, corporation, vested interests or
reactionaries of this world (who are just a minority) can do about it except
use the fabrication that there is!
Best wishes,
Anthony
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