“SO does it all come down to how we interpret human nature?” asked
Jonathon Porritt in his introduction to the final chapter of his epic …
CAPITALISM as if the world matters; before the economic crisis even emerged
and went on to ask “Are we genetically predisposed, as Richard Dawkins argues, to raise up the short term and the selfish over the long term and the altruistic?”

He then goes on to conclude that “UNTIL sustainable development IS embraced as the genuinely ”BIG IDEA” that IT really IS, then things are likely to get a very great deal worse before they start to get better. And IT IS only a transformation towards a very different kind of capitalism - as if the world really matters - that offers ANY KIND of PROSPECT of a sustainable future”

To which James Lovelock, creator of the GAIA theory has responded …

“The world IS on the brink of a vast and mostly unpleasant change that may mark the end of the present civilization. To renew and rebuild,  we need to listen to  the voices of the few truly selfless and thoughtful individuals among us, and Jonathon Porritt is one of them. His vision is much more optimistic than mine, which sees the need for a massive retreat from development, sustainable or otherwise, if we are to avoid another dark age on a torrid and mostly uninhabitable EARTH.”

John Perkins, wrote in 2004, of his anger at the continuing act of collective denial on the part of so many people in the political and business elite …

“We prefer to believe the myth that thousands of years of human social evolution has finally perfected the ideal economic system, rather than face the fact that we have merely ”bought” into a false concept and accepted it as gospel.

We have convinced ourselves that ALL economic growth benefits mankind, and that the greater the growth the more widespread the benefits. Finally, we have persuaded one another that the corollary to this concept is valid and morally just: that people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should be exalted, and rewarded, while those born at the fringes are available for exploitation. The real story IS that WE are living a lie.”

IT MUST NOW become clear to the peoples of this planet that our
new masters of the globe have only ever been responsible for
“blowing air as NO THING into the balloon” on the basis of providing
the security of reduced national debt, healthcare, education and
pensions; and charging handsomely for doing so; only for the hard-pressed peoples of this planet to pay for ALL the costs of re-assembling the balloon, once it bursts, TIME after TIME after TIME.

IS IT NOT the case that the elite and their corrupt cohorts get richer and richer and richer as the rest get poorer and poorer and poorer? - until presumably we here in the UK will be expected to pay 60, then 70 then 80% of our income to feed the self-sophisticated arrogance and greed of our own political, banking and business elite?

… bearing in mind that the vast majority of aid for the poor of this planet IS provided by the poor of this planet.

The illusion of reality BECOMING the reality of illusion - IN FACT

Let the PEOPLE DECIDE …

INDEED

“This was a crisis fostered and boosted by the irrational behaviour of people that are white and blue eyed. Before the crisis it looked like they knew everything about economics. And now they have demonstrated they don't know anything about economics. These were people who appeared to be gods of wisdom.”

                                          Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva

HOW do we nurture THE ACTION of ”creativity” ?

IT IS fair to say that the United Kingdom has been close to the centre of ACTION for several centuries, since Oliver Cromwell first took ACTION to ensure that PEOPLE should NOT be afraid of their governments and that GOVERNMENTS should BE afraid of their people.

ALAS the GOVERNMENTS of the United Kingdom, both conservative and labour new or otherwise, since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan's FINANCIAL BIG BANG, have BECOME ever more selfishly sophisticated, arrogant and greedy for the power of centralised political control of the MINDSET of the PEOPLE.

NO BETTER EXAMPLE of which has been manifested by way of lengths to which our glorious non-elected Prime Minister, Mr. Brown, has evidently been willing to stoop, in his quest to suppress ANY VIEWS on ANY SUBJECT other than his own. Even to the extent that to convince his own ego of “the fact” that HE ALONE inhabits the MORAL HIGH-GROUND, he chose to preach to ALL and SUNDRY from the pulpit of
St. Pauls Cathedral before the recent G20 Summit in London.

IT IS possible for a brain to function with one hemisphere, but as Janie has said elsewhere WHY use one when you can access 2 ?

LET US HOPE & PRAY that, despite ALL of this political interference, the children will indeed BE free to think their own thoughts, so they understand how to listen to the wind !!!

IN MANY WAYS the saying ”know thyself” IS NOT well said.
IT WERE more practical to say ”KNOW other PEOPLE!”
                                             
                                      Menander, Greek poet, 343-292


… and as Simon Heffer has written in today's Daily Telegraph

“The impression that we are governed by the worst elements of a particularly
nasty fifth form at a sink comprehensive will not have escaped you in recent
days. Most objectionable, though, is the failure of the headmaster to admit
responsibility for the smell. When a school goes wrong, it is usually the
head's fault for presiding over a lack of discipline and for bad management
of his staff. So it is with governments.”


AS for Gordon Brown's letters of “regret”, what else could be expected than Nadine Dorries's “cesspit” response ?  As Nadine Dorrie has said in the video a
“NEW MORAL LOW” indeed …

for “THE MAN” who alone inhabits the MORAL HIGH-GROUND and seemingly has an EGO so big that any concept of leading by the example of the manifestation of authentic self, has never ever crossed his mind.

The trees have to be able to breathe…period. ABSOLUTELY SO !

AND to quote an old Cherokee Prayer Blessing …

May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit bless ALL who enter there.
May your mocassins make happy tracks in many snows and
May the rainbow always touch your shoulder.


ACTION of ”creativity” = DO WHAT needs 2B DONE for the GOOD of ALL THINGS

SO MUCH for the ”entente cordiale” which was supposedly established as a result
of spending ALL that taxpayer's money on the G20 Summit in London recently …

WHO THE **** does Nicolas Sarkozy think he IS ?

Presumably one at a ”higher level of consciousness” than
the EGO of the ”THE MAN” of which I have recently spoken ?

Ha Ha BONK!

I KNEW you would be out there “listening” Albert ! … so forgive my tongue in cheek remarks because I too, DO BELIEVE that Sarko IS at a higher level of consciousness by way of following his instincts and …

Oh that ALL the leaders of Europe were so motivated.

As Pelle Billing has said -

“As long as you defend the notion that equality means equal opportunities, rights and responsibilities - while rejecting affirmative action and other forms of discrimination - then we are basically working towards the same goal.”

As Edmund Phelps has concluded in his FT - The future of Capitalism - article

Uncertainty bedevils the best system …

”MUCH IS dysfunctional in the US and the UK: a financial sector that
turned away from the business sector, then caused its self-destruction,
and a business sector beset by short-termism. If we still have our
humanist values we will try to restructure these sectors to make
capitalism work well again – to guard better against reckless disregard
of uncertainty in the financial sector while reviving innovativeness in
business. We will not close the door on systems that gave growing
numbers rewarding lives.”

SO ALSO may ALL the leaders of the Globe be motivated
to  ”Leap into the Future” in the face of the uncertainty
which bedevils the Future of ALL LIFE on our planet !
                                                 

SO MUCH FOR ”The MAN” who saved the world, he cannot even lead by example his own political party, let alone his government or THE PEOPLE of the UNITED KINGDOM, who he claims to represent.

The Freedom to associate with whom we might, IS best considered in the context of association with those who have understood that Freedom IS to authentically LIVE the life you really want to live.

For those that truly understand NO explanation IS necessary

For those that don't understand NO explanation WILL suffice

… and as Zephyr has quite succinctly drawn our attention to elsewhere

NO BETTER exemplification of those that truly understand IS BEING manifested than those involved in the Transition Movement.