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	February 25, 2007

Sunday Open Thread - February 25, 2007 What I'm planning on writing about soon: What's New in Innovation: Five trends worth thinking about. Blogging as Performance Art: Jon Husband's new meme. What a Fair Tax System Might Look Like: Taxing bads (to discourage socially and environmentally destructive behaviour) and excess wealth (to remedy the dire consequences of gross inequality): A tax system with a purpose other than funding war and corporatist handouts. The Fourth Turning: The coming era of repression and violent reactionary tyranny? What's Good to Eat: Get rid of meat, processed foods, anything with chemical additives, artificial ingredients, sugars, salt, and bad carbs, and you're not left with much. Or are you? Religion as a Form of Slavery: The God Delusion and all that. And technophilia as the fastest growing religion of them all. Finding & Working With Others to Save the World: Ways to enable billions to sync with us, on their own terms, in their own context, developing their own plan of action, and then to connect and collaborate in powerful ways, in experiments and in creating and refining working models in their own self-selected Earth-stewarding intentional communities, so that they no longer need the systems that are destroying our world. What I'm thinking about: Controlling my temper. I no longer suffer from road rage, but when I encounter stupidity, meanness, greed, dishonesty, waste, social & environmental destructiveness and a variety of other unnecessary human traits I can feel my stress levels rising. It does no good to get mad, so why can't we train ourselves not to? What are you thinking about these days? Cartoon from the New Yorker by ex-National Lampooner PC Vey. Get your favourite New Yorker cartoons as prints or apparel here. Cartoonists need our support. 1:05:59 PM  trackback []  comment []

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