We need to take charge of how we do business including how we trade, develop currency, and support our community so that it can support us. This is being done by the use of alternative currency (e.g., Ithaca) and time banks (e.g., Central Maine Time Bank). Fourth, we need to question everything. For example, many say our "savage ancestors" were happy to have our ways of living thrust upon them. It's easy to challenge this by simply looking at how the Native Americans resisted our ways of living during the 1800's while also seeing how many of those Natives (e.g., John Trudell) speak to the dominate culture.
It is important to note that a fetus evolves from the inside out, not the outside in. It is interesting that author Daniel Quinn states in his Ishmael, that we have stopped evolving. Perhaps we have stopped evolving because we have surrendered our power to the external authorities? Who are these authorities to author our lives? While all authors have basic rules to follow to help make their message clearer, then so do we. But, ultimately, the author's words originate from the inner world while it is often enticed by the outer. As eggs are within a woman's ovaries even when she is still in the uterus, we contain within us an infinite array of possibilities waiting to unfold. All creativity is a form of intercourse in which what happens externally is seminal to the conception of an idea or a work. This is how babies come to be and it is how new ideas are formed in the psyche. Thus, we need to allow a world to unfold by allowing ourselves to be influenced and impregnated by the external. At the same time, Eve (the Psyche or Soul) of all of us need to say "no more to rape!" while saying "no" to rape and "yes" to loving embrace.
Or as all the great religions teach, the Kingdom (or Truth) is within us.
Kirby Dick trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fBaFQk6aE0&feature=share
John Trudell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fM_ttXdtmo This youtube flick is over an hour long.
Ithaca Hours: http://www.ithacahours.org/
Mid Maine Time Bank: http://www.midmetimebank.org/whoweare.htm
Beatles; "Revolution": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjnAORttRnI&feature=related
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