That Used to Be Us – education as a solution for globalizaton challenges

I’ve written two posts (here and here) on “That Used to Be Us:  How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back” by Thomas Friedman and Michalel Mandelbaum.  As promised, here’s a post about some of the solutions Friedman and Mandelbaum propose. First, I have to just  say – the [...]

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“From each according to their abilities,to each according to their needs”

It’s easy to build a community, enabled by technology, in which each person can contribute what they’re good at, and as much as they are comfortable with. “many hands make light work” is so true. And can be so joyous. Karl Marx, like Jesus, said things that were profoundly true and have been profoundly misused. And modern technology ameliorates community-building!

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Power to the People – Let’s Turn this Country Around!

Let’s not wait for the government or (worse) corporations to save this country and give the unemployed something to do – let’s get into action ourselves! Some ideas to get us started: LifeSchool, BodyShop, EarthForces and S.O.S. – Save our Society. Let’s go!

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Three Cups of Tea and unemployment – hmm…..

Greg Mortenson while broke and alone started building schools for girls in Pakistan. What could America’s legions of unemployed people do with their time (besides look for paying work!) to change America? it’s not like America doesn’t need help too! Seriously – I want YOUR ideas!

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Easy to be cruel – on the suicide of Tyler Clementi

I’m shook and sad and feeling hopeless about the suicide of Tyler Clementi, the young Rutgers student who took his own life after two fellow students videotaped him having sex with another young man and then posted it on the Internet. How can people be so callous, unthinking and cruel? And where am I that one? Where do ***I*** show up as less than kind?

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Who would Jesus shun?

As a nation founded to ensure religious freedom, and a nation that is still predominantly Christian it would be revolutionary if people actually followed Jesus’s advice: Love your neighbors. The current anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant fear-based hysteria serves the Power Elite – not YOU!

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Seth Godin:Shaquan Duley as City of Love:City of Hate – how do we provide the map?

Comparing the positive thinking people I follow (Seth Godin, Marianne Williamson, the Dalai Lama, et al) with the woman in South Carolina who murdered her young sons. The City of Love: the City of Hate. If people have no underlying foundations (financial, emotional, spiritual) how can we show them the map to the City of Love?

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This changes everything

Gay marriage. New iPhone 4. Paradigm shifts – “This changes everything”. The old order is fading away and there are dizzying new possibilities. I’m feeling optimistic – you?

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Habits and consciousness

“…to be present in the moment…you need to slow down and let go of – or at least loosen – the habits you are addicted to.” – Sarah Susanka.

Changing habits REQUIRES consciousness, but it also begets more consciousness.

I’m changing how I eat and move my body and how I use the Earth’s resources. It’s waking me up. How about you – does changing habits affect YOUR consciousness?

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Jean Houston: “called into greatness by the necessity of our age”

My teacher Jean Houston wrote:  “Regardless of how unfulfilled our lives may seem, regardless of how meager our self-esteem, we are called into greatness by the necessity of our age and have little choice but to say “Yes.” In the midst of the turmoil of too-rapid change, an extraordinary light has arisen. Factors unique in [...]

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