08-11-2012, 04:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-11-2012, 05:04 PM by johnnylightworker.)
Siren that was an amazing tao you just proclaimed. I agree fully and I related especially to the after statement about the cozy apartment, job down the block laptop and sound system... for I am now entering the EXACT same living situation in a downtown setting. I just imagined you coming down from the mount with two stone tablets and for some reason your hair is on fire. Possibly you're riding a white mare... but regardless, message received!
And when it comes to economical reform, I've seen great strides with various self-sustaining communes here in America, and it leads me to suppose that reforms of such nature come about from small individual splashes that ripple outwards... for example if you can get everyone in a single household to agree on a system, and it works, then you have the potential to expand to the neighbors. Once you have 3 houses on the block sharing resources and services then you have the potential to get a whole neighborhood on board. A neighborhood has a big voice, at least in a district. A district has a huge voice in a city... and so on.
One of the biggest obstacles I've witness is the inability for a lot of inner city neighborhoods to COMMUNICATE amongst themselves. What ever happened to people going outside and talking to each other?
We seemingly do it all the times about huge issues in which we have little control over (i.e. politics, technology and religion) but how much time do we spend discussing amongst neighbors about general upkeep and security, gardening, sidewalk repair and transportation?
This may just be a reflection of some of my own experienced circumstances, and yes I'm highly blameable... but according to my observations it seems to me that the kind of change in which we seek begins locally.
And when it comes to economical reform, I've seen great strides with various self-sustaining communes here in America, and it leads me to suppose that reforms of such nature come about from small individual splashes that ripple outwards... for example if you can get everyone in a single household to agree on a system, and it works, then you have the potential to expand to the neighbors. Once you have 3 houses on the block sharing resources and services then you have the potential to get a whole neighborhood on board. A neighborhood has a big voice, at least in a district. A district has a huge voice in a city... and so on.
One of the biggest obstacles I've witness is the inability for a lot of inner city neighborhoods to COMMUNICATE amongst themselves. What ever happened to people going outside and talking to each other?
We seemingly do it all the times about huge issues in which we have little control over (i.e. politics, technology and religion) but how much time do we spend discussing amongst neighbors about general upkeep and security, gardening, sidewalk repair and transportation?This may just be a reflection of some of my own experienced circumstances, and yes I'm highly blameable... but according to my observations it seems to me that the kind of change in which we seek begins locally.
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