there is the potential for enormous growth in the seeds we water here.

they point the way to a new politics, a new interactivity, a new responsibility for the decisions that have such overarching repercussions, presently made in the privacy that we are being rapidly denied.

transparency should be the new code, and decisions, such as military intelligence etc which by their nature cannot be so, should be protected by an even more rigourous system of check and balances that the ones bush is merrily dismantling in the usa.

weh have to be honest about the corruptibility of our leaders, and take special precautions to prevent the abuse of power that has become endemic in the halls of influence.

we need rewards for whistleblowing, not punishments.

we have been left ignorant by design, and we owe it to ourselves and the future of this planet to gently wrest the keys from the drunk drivers who are wilfully ignoring the signs to slow down and rapidly reassess out inbred entitlement, and the terrible blowback that thence ensues.

our wealth and privilege in europe is built on the backs and resources of millions of dollar-a-day thirdworlders, who are coming calling for the bill, standing around our cities watching us, often resentfully, from their second-tier viewpoints.

our lifestyle model cannot be exported without suffocating the planet, therefore it behooves us to stand down, live more of a voluntary simplicity and share in what we know (our greatest 'natural' resource) through education and microcredit initiatives, technology (sustainable natch) and enlightenment principles, forged out of the historical tragedy of our own bloody experiences.

we are self-referential animals, and possess great tools to analyse and understand ourselves and the social structures we create and inhabit.

if we took the cream of what we've learned and gave it back as payment for the slaves, minerals, and fuel sources we have extracted from them for centuries, then the accounts can be squared.

the faster we do this voluntarily and 'in anticipo', the smoother transition we can effect.

there is a real need for pushback against past paradigms that seek to domnate our present ways of doing things, ergo ET!

is your sig a reference to the dangers of drowning in east anglia?

lovely diary...

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