  26 Apr 2009 @ 04:14
McPlanet this year is about very deep and tricky questions: What should we do when we eat up the whole planet? or leave it in the hands of a few. Should we reboot the system in times of multiple crisis? Is this a crisis of norms, values, our ways to analyze, imagine, communicate, present? or share, care and dare to confront issues and challenges as the same time? A multiple Crisis, or a multi-modal, many facetted crisis ??, a multiple crisis? Is shock a good treatment? as proposed by some as a "wake-up" call !?
I WONDER - having met Naomi Klein and have read and discussed with her some books and needed concerns and actions .... - how to leapfrog this dilemma of fear and dis-empowerment, not development but belittling important individual and common concerns...
The question in the article below is what to do, pragmatics and ethics, and how to address the root or driver probems, like how to overcome the fight over words, find ways of co-existence and co-creation without the compulsion to make others agree, and come to listening and sharing "modes" - not to experiment with back to "square one" demagogic drives, as the issue is not to restart an engine in operation, but check the metaphors and images we use, AND care for living things, greater goods and what we inflict onto others. Please read more also about dialog and decision cultures and a much need art of the arts: wise communication and good governance. (more) More >
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