“Empathy Entropy Paradox and how to break it”
The Gestalt Effect & Biosphere Politics.
"One may contemplate history from the point of view of happiness. But actually history is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

http://fora.tv/2010/02/11/Jeremy_Rifkin_More_Empathy_in_the_Global_Econo...
Jeremy Rifkin's talk at The American Academy in Berlin addresses the big picture issue of our corrupt culture. His talk about the Extension of Empathy in our society is a valuable listen. He is suggesting that we have to Begin to Empathize, on a more macro level, “As a Species.” He is asserting that the next progression in our evolution is a Distributed Economic Revolution and Lateral Capitalism. All of which requires a New Social Model. “Consciousness changes very quickly when energy and communication revolutions come in.” The goal should be an “Empathic Civilization.”
The Death Bed Test: Look back at life and see what parts really counted.

He calls the July of 2008 economic meltdown, “The end of the Industrial Revolution.” He says that was the earth quake and then the financial collapse was only an aftershock. So we are STILL not dealing with the crisis.
He also says not to confuse “Peak Oil Per Capita” with “Peak Oil Production.”
Peak Oil Per Capita has already peaked in 1979.
At $147 per barrel, purchasing power plummeted, and that was where “the engine of the Industrial Revolution shut off” world wide.
As we try to restart the global economy, and we do it with fossil fuels, we are limited by the inflation of oil prices and a ceiling of $147 per barrel. He say’s there is no way to get through that wall.
“We will be in very volatile times for many more decades”.... And then we’ll be extinct.

Please have him on.

Exemplified in symptoms that we recognize as current issues in our society (Global Warming, Poverty, Etc.), is a much larger problem and that is our culture. As such, I engage everyone I know on a daily basis with these issues and frame it in this big picture paradigm. My responses are usually that no one wants to hear it. This is because they feel overwhelmed and helpless in addressing such a momentous problem. How do we break through to the average, overwhelmed, disassociated, uneducated, miseducated, egocentric, ethnocentric, Self-Centered American? I need to know because I’m probably going to have to make new friends as a result of my current progressive world view. Thanks Thom.

drill 'bama drill?

**Reflection of the Week**

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for [those] who shall have borne the battle and for [the] widow and [the] orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

-- Abraham Lincoln

http://fora.tv/2010/02/11/Jeremy_Rifkin_More_Empathy_in_the_Global_Econo...
Jeremy Rifkin: More Empathy in the Global Economy?

I just listened to this 53 minute lecture from Jeremy Rifkin on what is wrong with our society. He sounds a little like Thom, only Rifkin makes things sound like it is already too late to save our species. He says the temperature rising by 3% in the next century now looks optimistic (which would equal mass extinction). A harbinger would be this one statistic: “One in Seven People in The World Go to Bed Without Access to Food.” That has never happened before. We have become the “Monster Species”
We are only 6.8 billion, yet we only make up half a per cent of the animal biomass on the earth. Unfortunately, we are currently using 24% of all the photosynthesis available on the earth.
He calls the July of 2008 economic meltdown, “The end of the Industrial Revolution”
He says that was the earth quake and then the financial collapse was only an aftershock. So we are STILL not dealing with the crisis.
He also says not to confuse “Peak Oil Per Capita” with “Peak Oil Production.”
Peak Oil Per Capita has already peaked in 1979.
At $147 per barrel, purchasing power plummeted, and that was where “the engine of the Industrial Revolution shut off” world wide.
As we try to restart the global economy, and we do it with fossil fuels, we are limited by the inflation of oil prices and a ceiling of $147 per barrel. He say’s there is no way to get through that wall.
“We will be in very volatile times for many more decades”.... And then we’ll be extinct.

I seem to remember Thom having him on awhile back, but I’m such a heavy listener, that I can’t remember. Mostly, he reminds me of how much in denial we all are.
In any case, could Thom please address a Macro Question which I have been pondering for months now?
Exemplified in symptoms that we recognize as current issues in our society (Global Warming, Poverty, Etc.), is a much larger problem and that is our culture. As such, I engage everyone I know on a daily basis with these issues and frame it in this big picture paradigm. My responses are usually that no one wants to hear it. This is because they feel overwhelmed and helpless in addressing such a momentous problem. How do we break through to the average, overwhelmed, disassociated, uneducated, miseducated, egocentric, ethnocentric, Self-Centered American? I need to know because I’m probably going to have to make new friends as a result of my current progressive world view. Thanks Thom.

@mstaggerlee, I am a Catholic who is on a journey toward being a true Christian. As a sinner I have fallen a thousnd times at least with the sins on my back. I hope that a merciful God will be my judge.

I do not know as much about Pope Benedict as I have about Pope John Paul II.

Shielding priests from charges of child molesting will eventually catch up with these child molesters and the bishops or cardinals who have protected them. Priests do not have the protection as our politicians who commit mass murders and war crimes and who receive standing ovations for their crimes against humanity.

As for me my contact with the priests was a great experience. I did not come across any priests who were suspected of child molesting.

I do not condone the behavior of priests who have molested children. However, I will leave it to God to judge them. I will try to live my life with a heart full of love, mercy, and forgiveness in return God may forgive and have mercy on me, a sinner.

@mstaggerlee

No Moonlight Serenade, that...or American Patrol either.

LUV your bumper sticker idea harry. It just implies so many things.

Apparently, the revolving door that separates the regulators from the lobbyists is still in fine operation -

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/peter-robertson-bank-lobb_n_517...

How retarded is Boehner?Yes sarah I said retarded,he is actually asking where the jobs are,I know he looks in the mirror to put his bronzer on.
On Karl Rove,we need to email,call and fax Holders office and insist on investigations,I do it weekly and I ask that all that listen to progressive radio do the same.

@Lemoyne yeah...I miss Carter and know he got screwed by the national security state. He has been bad-mouthed constantly. He was by far the most ethical President in my lifetime. His only moral failing I know about is the continued arming of the Indonesian army to commit genocide.

We all need electronic message boards attached to the rear of our vehicles so we can message the bozos behind us. Imagine the average rush hour...there would be about 50 road-rage shootings per mile.

All right- I am a Fair Trade Coffee Party member- anything goes- as long as its fair.