Hi Dawie...sorry for so long responding, but there are has been too much going
on in my life to do so sooner with words I'm hoping will explain at least in
part my position. Unfortunately, I believe I have not been able to even
scratch the surface of expounding upon the issues with which you have taken
issue and also professed. But I'm trying, and also, if in trying I have
completely misread your meaning, please forgive me.
So, except for the gist of your last paragraph, I couldn't disagree with
you more. I believe you are deluded. "Freedom" and "independence" are
illusions...delusions...ideas foisted upon us by a minority who want us to
believe the supposed reality of these words in order to divide us and
ultimately conquer us, just as they have and do--and will. "Freedom and
independence are" NOT "merely what all sane, healthy people strive for."
Freedom and independence are NOT "what causes children to be impatient to grow
up, and so they should be." "The problem is" NOT that "we've forgotten what
freedom and independence mean." The utterly fundamental problem is that we've
forgotten, in fact have never been taught (most of us), what "we" mean.
Let me put my hands around your neck, Dawie, and squeeze and the tighter I
squeeze I want you to tell me all about your "freedom" and your "independence."
Keep talking...keep talking...Dawie? What are you trying to say? Stop? Why?
Because you can no longer breathe the air we share. The same goes with water
and dirt. The fundamental fact of our being is that we share. And so each of
us comes and goes, along with whatever notions each of us might have of
freedom, independence, separation etc etc--every mental construct ad
nauseum--but what we share remains. And when Earth finally disappears, another
will appear, because what we ultimately share is grander than even Earth.
As I read what you have written, I am impressed that what makes you
uniquely you, Dawie, has been captured and taught to believe "you" are "free"
and "independent." And why should you believe otherwise? You feel this, so
you believe it. But what are you really feeling? You are feeling your nature
to focus and to see for yourself, to think for yourself, but it is not
ultimately for yourself that you are intended to see and think--it is for "us,"
the fundamental reality of "us" being Earth and everything we share.
Anyway, crank up the old intellectual noodling all you want, Dawie,
reality will not be changed; only you will be changed, just as you already have
been changed as indicated by your words. You will be (have been) changed from
what you are into someone else's idea for you of what they want you to be, just
as they have been doing for thousands of years. "United we stand. Divided we
fall." These are not merely words. The meaning of these words is the truth.
Anyway, I know we can divide this all up into a million bits of ultimately
nothingness and it will not change a thing, except as it changes each of us.
"Freedom," "independence," "separateness" all are, as far as I can see from
observing closely the situation in which I have my being, words which should be
blindfolded and shot, beheaded, hung from the gallows, obliterated, annihilated
etc etc. In their place I would substitute "individuality." This word makes
sense to me, as it seems to me to more accurately describe my experience. The
others, however, are charalatans, terrorists, blue meanies intending my utter
enslavement.
Take care, Dawie. Mike DuPree
----- Original Message -----
From: Dawie Coetzee
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] EMF-Omega-News 5. May 2007 (April articles)
Freedom and independence are merely what all sane, healthy people strive for.
It is what causes children to be impatient to grow up, and so they should be.
The problem is that we've forgotten what freedom and independence mean.
Freedom is not leisure; it is not a perpetual holiday. Conversely it is not
some Orwellian nightmare of "positive freedom", for there is no freedom that is
not freedom from duress. Freedom is the practical power to claim authorship of
one's acts, and the consequent confidence to take responsibility for them.
Likewise independence is not a state of vacuum that affords impunity, but a
basis of separate personal realness that is a prerequisite for any relationship
with others.
We are misled by a tendency to use metaphors from engineering. A steel ball
"free to move" on a pane of glass is no real illustration of freedom, because
the ball is quite incapable of resisting any force that acts on it. It cannot
refuse, it cannot say "No!", never mind resist effectively: it is therefore the
opposite of free.
The problem is not a surfeit of freedom and independence but a lack thereof
in any meaningful sense. The ability to tolerate exceptional behaviours without
eroding the basis of its existence is perhaps the measure of a system of
society. The concentration of too much power in too few hands causes the
current system to be extremely intolerant of exceptional behaviours, and
therefore it requires all kinds of intrusive bureaucratic tyranny to keep from
'disappearing up its own arse', if you'll excuse the expression. What we need
is not a population that is so abjectly servile as to welcome the bureaucratic
tyranny (because if you start thinking that way, universal genocide is a more
efficient option) but an end to the concentrations of power that maintain a
pretext for the tyranny.
-Dawie
----- Original Message ----
From: M&K DuPree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Sunday, 6 May, 2007 7:58:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] EMF-Omega-News 5. May 2007 (April articles)
Hi Kirk..thanks for sharing. More and more it appears to me the bottom line
is we are discovering how "freedom" and "independence" are grand illusions
which our subscribing to is now showing the truth of. We are not "free," never
will be, and there is no "independence." We are all bound to each other and
the planet in a grand scheme of interdependence, where what happens to a part
affects the whole. So only as we learn to work together, to help grow our
common ground and strengthen the ties that bind, not only do we have a chance
of taking ourselves to the next generation and the ones beyond that but of
learning true happiness and fulfillment in the present. Good night, and good
luck. Mike DuPree
----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk McLoren
To: biofuel
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 11:54 AM
Subject: [Biofuel] EMF-Omega-News 5. May 2007 (April articles)
"Redaktion Buergerwelle e.V. (BI Omega-CI Omega)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Dear Sir, Madam, Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,
for your information.
Best regards,
Klaus Rudolph
Citizens' Initiative Omega
Member of the Buergerwelle Germany (incorporated society)
Protectorate Union of the Citizens and Initiatives for the Protection
against Electrosmog
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