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rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related
groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit
the new behaviour or acknowledge the new idea. Or maybe it is
the Morphic Fields that physicist David Bohm spoke. There are
numerous "morphic fields" across our planet that are coming up
with similar ideas. A manifestation of some type of co-creative
dynamic.
Jeremy Rifkin refers to this dynamic as Homo-Empathicus,
in his Empathetic Civilization Presentation - The Empathetic
Civilization . "To Empathize is to Civilize."
Although I have been researching system solutions, or better yet,
symmathesy's - a new word for “System” that refers specifically to
living systems – that is, to systems which emerge from the
communications and interactions of living vitae - to catalyze a
global transformation toward regeneration; I discover efforts that
have similar concepts and ideas.
Paul Quaiser - Human Sustainability Institute
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which mitigate the establishment of that transition. No better perspective of these 'self-serving forces', has been created in his mind, than that proffered by Ralph Steadman in his Art Work; and most particularly his own very particular ...
'take on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights'. As most of you are already aware Leonardo da Vinci provided an early influence, in regard to my study of Art at Grammar School, which has subsequently been very much enforced by Steadman's own life long appreciation of Leonardo da Vinci.
The recurring theme of humanity in his work also shows up in his passion for other socially relevant causes. In 1994, he illustrated the front and back covers of Amnesty International's Drawing Blood, and in 1998 he did a series of drawings for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, celebrating its 50th anniversary of passing. They even had him write the introduction, wherein he stated:"'I have the right to hold an opinion, express it, celebrate it, broadcast it, live by it, and travel with it anywhere I so desire and what's more convince others, by peaceful means, that they should hold that opinion too.'"That in essence is Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and entombed within it is the right of any artist of any faith, impulse or inclination to express him/herself with unbridled passion and conviction sufficient to bestow upon the world a Pandora's Box of riches or curses we could probably live without."He continues, "Article 19 is obviously a dangerous one amongst twenty nine other equally important human agreements, but it is probably the one article which keeps well hidden within its carefully unbiased structure the undeniable fact that its content releases the power of the individual to be both artist and maniac. The 1948 United Nations Assembly had unwittingly created a monster, an embarrassing loophole, a well-meaning but desperate humanitarian gesture. In their earnest intention to neutralize any future tyranny in the shadow of the recent Holocaust freedom of communication was paramount."
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