RE: Occupy wallstreet demands
November 18, 2011 at 4:23 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2011 at 4:33 pm by paintpooper.)
Read this is a book today, and sounds very familiar to what we are experiencing with the OWS wanting change.
As a consequence of the enormous social and technological
changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working
well. We do not live in traditional and static societies. But our
governments, in resisting change, act as if we did. Unless we
destroy ourselves utterly, the future belongs to those societies
that,while not ignoring the reptilian and mammalian parts of our
being, enable the characteristically human components of our
nature to flourish; to those societies that encourage diversity
rather than conformity; to those societies willing to invest
resources in a variety of social, political, economic and cultural
experiments, and prepared to sacrifice short-term advantage
for long-term benefit; to those societies that treat new ideas as
delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.
As a consequence of the enormous social and technological
changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working
well. We do not live in traditional and static societies. But our
governments, in resisting change, act as if we did. Unless we
destroy ourselves utterly, the future belongs to those societies
that,while not ignoring the reptilian and mammalian parts of our
being, enable the characteristically human components of our
nature to flourish; to those societies that encourage diversity
rather than conformity; to those societies willing to invest
resources in a variety of social, political, economic and cultural
experiments, and prepared to sacrifice short-term advantage
for long-term benefit; to those societies that treat new ideas as
delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.
