Comments - NO THING CHANGES ... - Gaia Community2024-03-29T08:22:46Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A12668&xn_auth=no"NOTHING in politics makes…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-02-12:5313775:Comment:131092013-02-12T07:49:29.751ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong>"NOTHING in politics makes sense except in the light of cultural evolution."</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.culturalevolution.org/docs/ICE-Polarization-Plan.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> </a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.culturalevolution.org/docs/ICE-Polarization-Plan.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">What IS ABSOLUTELY required IS</a> -</strong></p>
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<p><strong>"A new form of agreement that transcends the…</strong></p>
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<p><strong>"NOTHING in politics makes sense except in the light of cultural evolution."</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.culturalevolution.org/docs/ICE-Polarization-Plan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.culturalevolution.org/docs/ICE-Polarization-Plan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What IS ABSOLUTELY required IS</a> -</strong></p>
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<p><strong>"A new form of agreement that transcends the horizontal left/right continuum"</strong></p>
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<div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>The goal of ICE's proposed synthesis platform is to articulate a fresh political position that moves in a "vertical" dimension above the current state of paralysis, <em>transcending the horizontal </em><em>continuum of left and right, where politics are perceived within a simplistic <strong>"<a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hubris-nemesis-catharsis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winning or losing</a>" </strong></em><em>frame of reference</em>. <strong>To accomplish this goal ICE's synthesis platform must incorporate the </strong><strong>essential strengths of each of the major perspectives that currently exist within the </strong><strong>American body politic</strong>. <em>This requires the ability to <strong>see and <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/understanding-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">understand</a> </strong>the <strong>healthy and thus </strong></em><strong><em>enduringly necessary aspects of America’s conflicting political positions</em></strong>.</p>
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<p>The political “synthesis” that ICE envisions must go beyond merely showing respect for each position; <em><strong>IT IS NOT a matter of simply "brokering policy compromises between political tribes</strong></em>."</p>
<p>Rather, the synthesis platform must demonstrate a previously unconsidered perspective that effectively transcends the current conflict by better integrating and harmonising the fundamental truths of each ideological camp. </p>
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</div> "When plunder becomes a way…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-02-05:5313775:Comment:126812013-02-05T21:52:43.319ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<div class="thirdPar"><p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>"When plunder becomes a way of life for <em>a group of men living together in society</em> - they <em>create for themselves</em>, in the course of time, <em>a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it -</em><br></br></strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong>THAT group of men - …</strong></span></p>
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<div class="thirdPar"><p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>"When plunder becomes a way of life for <em>a group of men living together in society</em> - they <em>create for themselves</em>, in the course of time, <em>a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it -</em><br/></strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong>THAT group of men - </strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/video/bbc-london-news-050209" target="_blank">financiers and their political puppets</a></em></strong><strong> - also <em>create</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><em><span class="font-size-6"><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/video/gillian-tett-keynote-remarks" target="_blank">a financial system that profits from it</a></span></em></strong><strong> -</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong>until those illusory profits run dry such that -</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>there is not enough money for our health services.</strong><br/><strong>there is not enough money for our police service.</strong><br/><strong>there is not enough money for our armed forces.</strong><br/><strong>there is not enough money for our local government.</strong><br/><strong>there is not enough money for our social housing.</strong><br/><strong>there is not enough money for our schools.</strong><br/><strong> </strong><br/><strong>BUT there IS <em>enough money</em> for <em>luxury ministerial limousines</em> - chauffeurs to drive them 100 yards to a meeting - and hours spent waiting to make the same 100 yard return journey - instead of just 3 minutes each way to walk the same journey.</strong></p>
<p><strong>so much for '<em><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9850353/Welsh-Secretary-takes-chauffeured-Jaguar-for-100-metre-walk-to-Number-10.html" target="_blank">we're all in it together</a></em>' !</strong></p>
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