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	March 4, 2007

Sunday Open Thread - March 4, 2009 What I'm planning on writing about soon: 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? (I gave away my copy of the book, so this one will have to wait until I pick up a new copy). 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. The 'M' word: One of the last taboos to talk or write about. Controlling one's temper in the face of provocation. Do our frames enable independent thinking or preclude us from thinking objectively? What I'm thinking about: How we can increase our resilience, and our energy level. So many things, events and people in the modern world are exhausting (physically, emotionally, intellectually) or distracting, or simply diluting of one's attention and energy, so that there's not enough of either to focus on "doing one or two things really well" and not enough time or enthusiasm left at the end of the day to push a few more important projects a step forward. I sense that more collaboration ("many hands make light work") is part of the answer, but probably not enough. I'm also concerned that so many of us trying to make the world a better place are still working alone. What's keeping you awake this week? Image above is from the New Yorker's weekly cartoon caption contest, drawn by Tom Cheney. Some cartoons are so great they don't even need a caption. Buy his stuff at Cartoon Bank. 5:27:46 PM  trackback []  comment []

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