Ezra Niesen
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I’m pretty disappointed by education in the U.S. I have a video on my website about how 10 scientific discoveries make up the philosophical foundation of the Occupy! movement, and make up the foundation of a unified education system. Also on my website I have the text of a book I wrote in which I expand upon those concepts. www.newbookforanewworld.org
One way I can see to make ideas in the U.S. evolve is to start an educational revolution somewhere else in the world. -
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We could say the same thing for Christianity in the U.S. I think what you’d need to make this work would be to distill philosophical concepts from science to find a universal environmental philosophy, and then adapt other traditional philosophies to it. I think that would go a long way toward people being able to see how much they have in common with people of other religions, which would help a lot of people find ways to interpret their religions in ways that were also compatible with other people’s religions.
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I’m curious if anyone noticed that this discussion, like most political discussions, has focused on political plans that Europeans thought of. I notice this a lot because I have stone age hunter-gathering in my family’s oral history. If you limit yourself to talking about political ideas that people have thought of since written history began, you’re not looking at the whole picture.
Every possible original center of writing had monarchies for political systems when writing began. Every political “theory” since then has been an adaptation of monarchy. Even democracy is still a struggle over effective decision making power.
A successful tribe is made up of intelligent, well educated, hard working, energetic, charismatic, strong-minded, benevolent leaders, supported by well educated, hard working tribal members. That combination of nine items turns individuals each working for their own self-interest into a cohesive political force. People who understand their situation well work hard for goals that benefit their group, and other people who understand their situation well see that they can join in and help those people succeed. Get rid of any one of those things and your tribal political unit breaks down, because the people’s combined efforts no longer get directed toward the overall benefit of the group.
All of our instincts came from the stone age. Even today if you try to organize a community group to work together toward some goal, if you don’t have hard working, well-informed group members and intelligent, well informed, hard working, energetic, charismatic, strong-minded, benevolent leaders it won’t work.
I think that meaning of “democratic” that this discussion began with is whether or not the environmental crisis can be solved in a way that keeps peace and social equality as high priorities. But there’s a lot more to that than voting. Political systems survive instead of self destructing because people trust each other enough to work well together. -
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