from Melisa Christensen -- safe travel, Melisa!
Models Not Leaders: WNYC has a great archive of the NPR RadioLab program.
Listen to Season One's program on Emergence -- about how self-managed
groups do very, very well without leaders. Instead, they self-adopt
models, consensually. Order materializing out of disorder, chaos. This is our job:
To allow to emerge collective models of better ways to live and make a
living, working collaboratively with those we love in conversation and
community, and then allow them to be adopted. Thanks to Craig De
Ruisseau for the link.
The Environmental Cause of Cancers: The World Cancer Research Fund has made the scientific link between toxins (and lack of micronutrients and diversity) in our food supply, and the prevalence of many cancers.
A very early and tentative step towards showing that the world
megapolluting corporations and governments are causing much, most of
the disease that is killing and sickening billions. If the political
and legal system will ever be of any value whatsoever (other than to
the elite it slavishly serves), it will be in its eventual capacity to
sue, dismantle and stop the people behind these mass murdering
organizations. Thanks to Prad for the link.
Feminist Blogs:
My favourite critic flickrdiner provides this excellent list of blogs
by women who are, like me, angry and fed up with patriarchy:
- Ilyka Damen: Maybe I don't really love women. Maybe I'm just concern-trolling.
- BrownFemiPower: We have the right to heal and to live. We owe ourselves life. We owe that to each other.
- Blackamazon: It is in the music.
- Sudy:
"Perhaps it's because marginalized individuals spend such an ungodly
amount of their lives fighting to get their voice out that when the
sound resonates, I'm less concerned about whether it's pleasing, and
more about my own ability to tell my truth."
- Feministe: Minorities within minorities within minorities.
- Feministing: WAM.
More on Polyamorism: Another great resource explaining what poly is and what it isn't, from Xeromag. Thanks to an anonymous reader.
A Blog on Love, Conversation and Community!:
This is an incredible find. "If humanity is to thrive into the next
millennium, it will be because we who live have found our own ways that
work, not because some scientist(s) found the magic formula". The author of this blog figured it all out way before I did.
Sustainability. The different forms of love. Polyamorism. All
thoughtfully considered. Brilliant. I've been soaking up every word.
Why We Mostly End Up Being 'Everybody Else": Reader/blogger Jeremy at 6th Density beat me to the punch with a review of Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article on IQ as a measure of modern social conditioning. Excerpt from Gladwell:
"Two institutions at present control our children’s lives: television
and schooling, in that order. Both of these reduce the real world of
wisdom, fortitude, temperance, and justice to a never-ending, nonstop
abstraction. In centuries past, the time of childhood and adolescence
would have been occupied in real work, real charity, real adventures,
and the realistic search for mentors who might teach what you really
wanted to learn. A great deal of time was spent in community pursuits,
practicing affection, meeting and studying every level of the
community, learning how to make a home, and dozens of other tasks
necessary to becoming a whole man or woman." The way we equate
conformity to 'modern' cognition with intelligence is entirely
consistent with how we equate obedience with intelligence in animals.
China's Toxic Fish Products: Consistent with everything else they produce, fish and seafood from China is toxic poison,
the inevitable product of a society that cannot afford to care a whit
about human health, dignity, well-being or the environment, or anything
beyond the grim and endless struggle just to stay alive at any cost.
Best Business Books of 2007: Not a bad list from S+B this year, except ignore the whole category of books on entrepreneurship, which are all crappy. Canadian Bill Buxton's Sketching,
which I reviewed recently, was justifiably best book on innovation.
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