John, John and all

John Waters wrote:
"I wish I could see a general solution. Unfortunately all I can see are
small-scale, localized ad hoc solutions in like tiny islands in an ocean
of chaos. That doesn't mean that solutions don't exist, of course. ;-)
That's why I continue to lurk, straining to hear the small voices of
sanity out there."
And then John Rogers wrote in Society's Operating System: "It's not rocket
science and yet we manage to massively complicate matters with money!"
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyfranogi/message/1830
So to deal with how complicated matters have become, the syncronicity that I
see needed is twofold; one is like the spread of an inner fire from the few to
the many, lit up into inspiration at many spots on earth, like the Global
Villages idea, and the other is a sudden calm which will reach the One Village
scenery, like a deep stillness befalling a great big lake under a beautiful sky
of infinite horizons, like what fighting peacefully can do through holistic
helping as highlighted by Janet so well.

So for the sake synchronicity's momentum building, here are some links to
someone's work, who has made it a life time goal to hear the samll voices such
as mine, for the sake of bringing on the one voice of peace, systematically for
the six billion people, without destroying anything nor anyone in the process.
He and his dad have had to learn to live up to the title of "future historians"
and he now lives for the sake of providing a future his 10 years old daughter!!!
http://www.omidyar.net/user/u494644901/news/0/6/
When I read him, I get the sense of this very real and possible opportunity
that human intelligenge can respond to quickly and efficiently in simplicity and
with joy abounding for all. Here are some of his calls to sanity:

http://project30000.blogspot.com/

http://worldentrepreneur.net/

http://worldentrepreneur.net/_wsn/page5.html

http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/2006/12/delhi-grn-2004-gandhi-2007.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4205819

http://clubofahmedabad.blogspot.com/1999/12/ways-you-can-collaborate-with-club-o\
f.html

These are, but a few of his ongoing work. The beauty of the man is how you
can learn so much directly from him.

Also, there is Jeffrey Sachs who is an economist advising the UN Secretary
General on the Millinium Goals. So here is a link to a post I made to invite
on a Canadian site where Jeffrey Sachs was a conference speaker. In that
letter, I mention my dream for participation and collaboration:
http://www.canada2020.ca/blog/progressive/in-connecting-to-jeffrey-sachs-canada-\
2020-lecture/

Then of course, there is Andrius Kulikauskas, John Waters, John Rogers, Tom
Wayburn, Steve Bosserman, Kevin Parcell, Janet Feldman, Pamela McLean, Jeff
Buderer, Franz Nahrada, Markus Petz, Eric Schneider and many others grows the
impulse in me to scream out to the powers that be...
How can Minciu Sodas, Chris Macrae and Jeffrey Sachs come into synchronicity
in such a way as to initiate an emrgency response team, ready to be dispatched
with the complete equipement needed to "attack" human misery by raising the
inspiration and the foundation of health-education-correction? And also,
How can we go about to consolidate the passage of sanity's dreams into
reality, in the topology of a universal dance, where melodious synchonicity
moves us in position of balance and harmony, away from the oppression of current
money handlings?

Speaking at such a level of complexity in 2006 as what we do, calls for the
lead to be given from people who have experience in conflict resolution. The
kind of people we need, are those who are already involved on the front lines of
the diplomacy of good business deployment and humanitarian relief and who's work
simply need to have our personal attention and our collective focus to support
the move in the direction that sanity calls for.

Benoit

John Waters <john.waters@...> wrote:
Tom Wayburn wrote:

> The Cato Institute and I have quite different definitions of economic
freedom.
> Economic freedom means economic equality because a rich man can impose
> upon the freedom of a poor man in a thousand ways, which means that the
> fear that he might is present constantly and constitutes the opposite of
> economic freedom.

I agree strongly.

> In particular, I wish to be free of the unfair game in which people
compete for
> money. Therefore, I would argue that Cuba rates higher in economic freedom
> than does Hong Kong. All those nice things that are supposed to happen
> when the Cato Institute's notion of economic "freedom" obtains,
namely, the
> right to exploit others freely given, are skewed in favor of the rich
or are
> simply bad data.

.. or false conclusions based upon mis-stated or mis-structured
statistical or correlative arguments.

The information-impoverished "free market" system fails to distinguish
channels (paths from cause to effect) and precludes the formation of
effective regulative feedback loops.

I wish I could see a general solution. Unfortunately all I can see are
small-scale, localized ad hoc solutions in like tiny islands in an ocean
of chaos. That doesn't mean that solutions don't exist, of course. ;-)
That's why I continue to lurk, straining to hear the small voices of
sanity out there.

John :)

>
>
> Tom Wayburn, Houston, Texas
>
> http://dematerialism.net/ <http://dematerialism.net/>
>
>
>
> Benoit <benoitctr@... <mailto:benoitctr%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am not sure if article such as this one is relevant to us here. If
not, maybe
> someone can let me know and I will focus where instructed.
>
> http://www.cato.org/new/pressrelease.php?id=56
<http://www.cato.org/new/pressrelease.php?id=56>
>
> http://www.cato.org/pubs/efw/ <http://www.cato.org/pubs/efw/>
>
> Benoit Couture
>

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