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CIA director.<br>
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style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">UP!</span><br>
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<div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small> </small></small></span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small>All
truth passes through 3 stages.</small></small></span></font><small><small><small><small><small><big><big><big><b>
Get
<span style="color: fuchsia;">UP!</span>
<i style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Stand
Up For Your Rights! </i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 7pt;">(<span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">and
everybody else's too of course! :)</span></span></i></b></big></big></big></small></small></small></small></small><br>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small>1,
it's ridiculed.
</small></small></span></font><small><small><small><small><small><big><big><big><big><b
style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;"><i><span
style="color: fuchsia;">u can't understand the world
without
innerstanding yourself</span></i></b></big></big></big><span
style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;">
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style="font-size: 48pt; font-family: "Arial Black [monotype]"; color: fuchsia;"></span></b></small></small></small></small></small><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small> </small></small></span></font><span
style="font-family: Arial;"></span><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small>2, it's violently opposed.</small></small></span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small>
</small></small></span></font><small><small><small><small><small><b><span
style="font-size: 48pt; font-family: "Arial Black [monotype]"; color: fuchsia;">UP!</span><span
style="color: fuchsia;"> </span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: fuchsia;">271</span><span
style="color: fuchsia;"> </span></b></small></small></small></small></small><small><small><small><small><small><big
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style="color: gray;">15 01 08</span></big></big></big></big></big></big></small></small></small></small></small><small><small><small><small><small><b><span
style="color: fuchsia;"> </span></b></small></small></small></small></small><br>
<small><small><small><small><small><b><span style="color: fuchsia;"></span></b><big
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style="color: gray;"></span></big></big></big></big></big></big></small></small></small></small></small><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small>3, it's
accepted as being self-evident.</small></small></span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><small><small>
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style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big>----
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style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><span style="color: fuchsia;">u
cant innerstand yourself without
understanding the world</span></i></b></big></big></big></big></small></small></small></small></small><br>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font><small><small><small><small><small><big><big><big><b><span
style="color: black;">Get </span><span style="color: fuchsia;">UP!</span>
<i style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">And Don't Give Up The Fight! </i></b><b
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><i><span style="font-size: 7pt;">(only
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style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">ô</span></b><b
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">fraser<br>
</span>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">well,
if you haven't noticed even american woManity crying out for CHANGE and
voting for the Dinosaurs to leave the Stage (forever) then you're a
hopeless cynic who'd be moaning about the harp strings in heaven. so
fast is woManity changing, indeed, that even hillary clinton
(yesterday's best hope) is being dismissed by many as part of the
Dinosaur Elite. ditto gordon brown. <br>
<br>
don't blink, folks, or u might miss a Gigantic Leap up the Evolutionary
Stakes :)<br>
<small>up!</small><br>
</span><br>
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style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;" lang="EN-US">\)</span></b><b
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style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);" lang="EN-US">)</span></b><b
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style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-US">)</span></b><b
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style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" lang="EN-US">)</span></b><b
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style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);" lang="EN-US">/</span></b></big><br>
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style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">____,,,,</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">_{</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">ô</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">¿</span></b><b
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">fraser</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><big><big><big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">the <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new new age</span> hoodie</span></big></big></big><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">this is
a new video from Greenpeace which i urge you to watch before you read
the article below it.</span><br>
<pre wrap=""><big><a style="font-weight: bold;"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgvnqv1-_D4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgvnqv1-_D4</a></big>
<big><span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">as i watched that video i suddenly remembered a very very similar concept i was pushing waaaay back in about 1990 - <big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new<sup>2</sup>agers</span></big> (new new agers) who were infinitely more committed to massive change than new agers ever were. </span></big><small><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: Arial Black;"></span></small></pre>
<div style="text-align: center;"><small><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: Arial Black;"><big><i
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><big>there's a whole fukking planet
needs saving, and you're getting heavy about me saying fukking?!"</big></i></big></span></small><big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><small> <br>
</small></span></big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><small>-</small> <span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">new</span><sup
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2</sup><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">age
teenager to old new ager in
london psychic shop. </span></span><br>
</div>
<pre wrap=""><big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">i dug it out. it was my editorial in <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">evolution^</span> magazine <span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">(1990, vol 13 of the <span
style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Encyclopaedia Psychedelica</span>)</span> in the early days of rave culture - actually before it had become a culture at all.
and it was so <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">prophetic</span>, and <span
style="font-style: italic;">still </span>so absolutely <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">relevant</span>, that i've decided to reprint it. it should give original readers a thrill of memory, and hopefully everyone else a shot of adrenaline and encouragement as we advance further into this critical new year. <span
style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<small style="font-weight: bold;">[part of it is also being used by gungho media in their soon-to-be-finished <span
style="font-style: italic;">Waveform/Earthdance</span> documentary, more of which in future editions]</small></span>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">enjoy! </span> and remember it was written in 1990! <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">whew!</span>
</span></big></pre>
<div style="text-align: center;"><small style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><small><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">:) :) :) </span></small></small><small
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><small><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">:) :) :) </span></small></small><small
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><small><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">:) :)<big><big> :)</big></big> </span></small></small><small
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><small><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">:) :) :) </span></small></small><small
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><small><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">:) :) :) </span></small></small><small
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><small><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">:) :)<br>
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style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></big></div>
<p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: right;" class="MsoNormal"><br>
ESCAPE THE FASHION
MERRY-GO-ROUND TODAY & YOU WON'T BE
JUMPING OUT IN 3 MONTHS. TAGS CHANGE, BUT ONCE INTO THE<big
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> feelings</big> &
<big><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">philosophies </span></big>YOU'LL
REALISE THERE'S NOWHERE ELSE TO GO...</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><big><big><big><i><span
style="font-size: 18pt;"><big><big>we are coming that ye might have
life</big></big></span></i></big><br>
</big></big>
<i><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><big><big>and
that ye might have it more abundantly</big></big><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><i><span
style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
<div
style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"><i><span
style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">the
time is now the people are us the place is planet earth.</span><br>
<br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">
<o:p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"></o:p></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">there's
a whole new energy in youth that's about fun, feelings, celebrating,
love &
peace, global harmony, joy, saving the planet and cosmic consciousness,
and
everybody's coming together into a movement that's already bigger than
any mass
movement in history, and getting bigger by the minute.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<p style="text-align: right;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN"><big
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-family: Arial Black;">up
the evolution^!</big> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">we're
all
realising it's more than just the 2nd or 3rd summer of love, music,
fashion and
dancing. it's not just <i><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"the
next big thing"</span> - </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"in"</span>
this month but making way for something else next week. we're not just
talking
about trendy cults and elite house clubs, but about a fuckin' movement
that's
bringing together & remixing<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><i><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">the best in
house, the best in new age, the best in psychedelic and
the best
in green ecology.</big></i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><i><br>
<br>
</i>it's an e v o l u t i o n a r y rollercoaster
that's going
to go on growing all through the '90s and into a new age!</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">1989
saw massive gatherings of 20,000
people celebrating life, and
literally thousands of smaller gatherings and raves in every available
field,
warehouse, beach, park, pub, house and club.<br>
since acid, the explosion of new dance culture has brought joy, hope
& fun
to hundreds of thousands, and now it's going to cross over with the
psychedelic
festival scene which never died and which has been struggling to change
</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Arial Black;">our
crazy, planet-unfriendly political
system that bans dancing in green fields, pollutes the air, water and
land, and
has always retained control by divide-and-rule.</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"
lang="EN"><big>well, it won't
happen this time. because now we're running out of time!</big> </span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">unity
will
come out of this diversity, just as 1 world will come out of
the crazy nation states we have now. what shall we call this movement
that's
now emerging and which will usher in a whole new evolutionary one-world
planet
culture? how about </span></span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big style="font-family: Arial Black;"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new</big></big></span><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><sup>2</sup></big></big><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big style="font-family: Arial Black;"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">age</big></big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">!
[NEW NEW age as opposed to OLD
NEW age).
but take it with a snort of salt - tags change but the feelings, ideas
and
philosophies are here to stay. why </span></span><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new</big></big></span><big><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><sup>2</sup></big></big><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">age</big></big></span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">?
because new age = improving
yourself,
but </span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">new</big></span><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"><sup>2</sup></big><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">age</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> =
saving ourselves </span></span><big
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"><i>and our
planet,</i>
ok? </big><span style="font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p>
</span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span><br>
<br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big style="font-family: Arial Black;"><big><span
style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">NEW</span><sup
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">AGE</span> = <span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">NEW AGE
NEXT STAGE</span></big></span></big></big><span style="" lang="EN"></span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<div
style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><big><span
style="" lang="EN">at last
we're thinking for ourselves, and prepared to experiment. <br>
now we
realise that our pop stars and style leaders don't know,<br>
our
politicians and
religious authorities don't know, and <big
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">we </big>don't know. </span></big><br>
<big><span style="" lang="EN"></span></big></div>
<div
style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><big><span style="" lang="EN"></span><span
style="" lang="EN">so why do we feel so positive? because at last
we're
ready to find out! <br>
let's experiment, then,</span><span style="" lang="EN"> with the very
best our minds can uncover, let's go<br>
fullblooded for a fucking
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">new</span><sup
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">2</sup><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">age</span> and find out for ourselves
if it's possible or
not.
<br>
it's going to require courage, insight and perseverance. </span></big><br>
<big><span style="" lang="EN"></span></big></div>
<big><span style="" lang="EN"> </span></big></div>
<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><big
style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="" lang="EN"></span><span
style="" lang="EN">but above all it's going to be <big>fun!</big>
easily the
greatest adventure story ever
told. </span></big><br>
<big><span style="" lang="EN"></span></big><br>
<big><span style="" lang="EN"></span><big
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="" lang="EN"><i>exploring
self while saving planet<br>
is the best rave in town, bar none!</i> <o:p></o:p></span></big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
</span></big><br>
</div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">for 50, and
maybe
1000 years the world has been prepared for a new age, and now the '90s
generation will actually introduce it. whoever you are, wherever you
are, and
whether you realise it or not, you are already - and </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">accele r a t i
n g l y</i></big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">
</big>so every day - living in the new age. for years you have been
hearing
its
ideas, bathing in its music, being inspired by its artists and
popularisers;
you have certainly bought some of its products, from brown bread to
lead-free
petrol. as for its philosophies, therapies, religions and rituals, you
may well
have participated more deliberately, but again perhaps without
realising they
were <big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new age</big>. even
checking out the e numbers on a packet of food is a
new age
ritual - they wouldn't have been there if people like you hadn't <i
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">demanded</i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">
</span>it. <br>
<br>
new agers seeking to change society often reach us on tv, in
newspapers and
magazines, at your local health clinic, in the movies, on records. even
sports,
exercise, slimming, beauty and fitness programs, motivational training,
psychological counselling and career therapies are regular pipelines
for the
new age lifestyle and morality. western culture has been thus
penetrated since
the turn of the century. but, for hundreds or even thousands of years
before
that, </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">prophets, shamans, heretics, witches,
alchemists, rebels,
bohemians,
beatniks</span></big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> and <span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">hippies </span>were
all united by a conviction that
"official" society had taken a wrong turn, and that woMan, instead of
working to live, was living to work; and that life's tru<i>e</i>
aim had
been lost, along with respect for nature, not only outer but <span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">inner</span>
<i>......... <br>
<br>
</i></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><i><big
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">and that a
heavy price would have to be paid one day.</big></i><big
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"> </big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><br>
but especially, since the previous great new age mass spiritual
protest
by the </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">'60s hippies</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">, western culture
has been thoroughly permeated with
concepts/attitudes that only 20 years ago seemed exotic and even evil
to the
majority. now, with 2 million votes for the greens (many of whose
leaders were
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">hippies</span>) and concern for
the outer & inner environment at record
heights,
what the <i>Observer</i> newspaper has called <span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"the most
powerful social
force on the planet today"</span> seems unstoppable, and seems to touch
every area of life, from medicine
to
education, from nutrition to sport, and from entertainment to politics,
science
and technology themselves.<br>
<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><i>and now the house generation has
arrived!</i><o:p></o:p>
</big></span><br>
<b><i><span style="" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b>
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<br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big><big
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: Arial Black;">THE <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">NEW AGE
MOVEMENT</span> IS A VERY BROAD club INDEED<br>
</big><big style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: Arial Black;">AND
MUST GET BROADER STILL
IF IT IT'S TO INCLUDE <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">EVERYONE </span></big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><o:p></o:p>
</span></big><br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><big><i><span style="" lang="EN">we
don't have
time for anything else!</span></i><span style="" lang="EN"> <o:p></o:p></span>
</big></big><br>
</div>
<span style="" lang="EN"><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">as communications
shrink the world, and the reaction to each individual's actions
approaches
instant feedback, world culture is being throughly permeated with </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">new
ageism</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">.
new age music and publishing are</span><b
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> billion dollar
indu$trie$.</b><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
international media festivals, organised or fronted by new agers,
inspire
millions to tackle planetary symptoms. multinational companies hire
new
age
consultants to increase employee effectiveness & fulfillment. new
age
"politics" emphasising green & peace issues, decentralisation and
social/personal responsibility spread like wildfire across europe and
america.
the </span><i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">International
Research Institute For Social Change</i><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
concluded
recently that a new breed of </span><b
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black; font-style: italic;">"inner
directed european"</b><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> is emerging, for
whom the
freedom to achieve full physical and mental potential, and a strong
concern
about the e n v i r o n m e n t are deemed </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"></span><i
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">primary</big></i><i
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">.</i><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> these
politically
and environmentally aware citizens already constitute</span><b
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><i> one third
of the
population</i></b><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">, are multiplying
fast, and might have constituted</span><b
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><i>
nearly half the population</i></b><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> as we entered the
final decade.
different
countries proceed at slightly different paces. </span><st1:place
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">britain</st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> may lag behind
the
continent on some levels, but is far ahead on the rave front. on the
other
hand, 34 million americans describe themselves as </span><i><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">"concerned
with
inner
growth, including mysticism".</span><br>
</i></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
</span>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;"><big>WHAT <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">VISION </span>DO ALL OLD & <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">NEW NEW AGERS
</span>SHARE?<o:p></o:p>
</big></big><br>
</div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">new
agers and </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new<sup>2</sup>agers</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">,
then, are fired with a vision of the incredible future humanity could
enjoy if
we can admit our mistakes and change in time. although new agers come
in 2
varieties (those with their roots in the hippy revolution, and the
current house consciousness craze which is about to sweep the
whole of
western civilisation) all are concerned with </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">personal
and planetary
transformation</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">
and believe that woManity is finally realising its potential to heal
body,
mind, spirit and planet. <br>
<br>
former wage slaves, voluntarily or not, begin to take an interest in
self-development. in the old days only a relative minority seemed to
evolve to
this point. but the human species<i> itself </i>has been evolving,
and
today's
situation now requires that <i
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">everyone</i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"> </span>evolve
to this point... </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"
lang="EN"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"><i>and
beyond</i></big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">. <br>
<br>
today anyone may be made redundant, suffer a personal loss,
glimpse
a radical insight during therapy or on a recreational drug, read
radical ideas
in a new age bestseller, meet a committed </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">new<sup>2</sup>ager</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"> at a
rave, have
their conscience activated by something particularly slimy with which
their
company's involved or by a film on endangered wildlife, or indeed every
time they
open a newspaper!<br>
<br>
former drop outs simply decide to shoulder their responsibility to
learn (and
then practise) ways of bringing about peaceful, cooperative change in
society.
this usually involves<i> dropping in again,</i> possibly in more
casual, but
now more persevering ways.<br>
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><br>
</span>
<div
style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="" lang="EN"><big><big>HOW <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">NEW</span><sup
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">AGERS</span>
DIFFER FROM MERE NEW AGERS </big></big></span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><big
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;"><big><span
style="" lang="EN">and why it will be them who actually change the
world</span></big></big><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<small><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: Arial Black;"><big><i
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"there's a whole fukking planet needs
saving, and
you're getting heavy about me
saying fukking?!"</i></big></span></small><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><small> -</small> <span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">new</span><sup
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2</sup><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">age
teenager to old new ager in
psychic shop. </span><br>
<br>
of the older,
more established new agers (often quite successful, more committed to
and hence
not deepdown <i>wanting</i> the present society to change - <span
style="font-style: italic;">much</span>) the most
radical
might tell you they expect this rapidly building wave to revolutionise
our
society as much as, say, the Renaissance or the Reformation. but the
new house
generation of </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">agers</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> dismiss those two
events as merely
early
stepping stones towards </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;">a total new age transformation</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> which has been
coming to
the boil for <span style="font-style: italic;">year</span>, and
woMankind will soon, they say, have radically questioned all
previous
assumptions about life, nature, and 'civilisation' or will have
destroyed
hirself.<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">for </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">agers</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
it's a matter of <big style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">change or die. </big>
new agers are into improving themselves;
</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">agers</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
are into<i> saving</i> themselves -<i> and</i> everybody else<i>!</i>
<br>
<br>
</span><big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">ageism</span></big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">,
then, is bringing together all the finest, most attuned members of all
the
assorted and somewhat distorted sub-cults into a mass youth movement.
</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">punks,
goths, mental mentals, mods, football hooligans, headbangers, heavy
metallics,
ravers, romantics, new wavers, style victims, shoomers, home boys &
fly
girls, psychedelicists, funksters, love & peacers, lager louts,
teds,
pimps, rockabillies, rastafarians, freestylers, skins, brossettes,
nerds, tecno
sharons, young farmers, new agers, neo-hippies, peace pagans,
alchemists,
socialists, casuals, yondies, yuppies, hippy hoppies, tekkies,
conservatives,
libs and lsd-ers, vegetarians, libertarians, vegans, zippies, execs,
trendies,
growthies, soulies, greenies, animal liberationists, rockers</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> and </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><big style="font-family: Arial Black;">surf
nazis</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">. <o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">all
these <span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">agers</span>
are committing themselves to live and work with the everyday knowledge
that, if humanity doesn't achieve a total change in our world system
from competition
to cooperation, then the old
age will destroy us<i>
all!</i><br>
</span><br>
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN"><big><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">NEW</span><sup
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">AGERS</span>
SAY EVERYONE TODAY HAS A <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">'NEED
TO KNOW'</span></big></big></span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">our whole civilisation has gone
seriously
wrong,</i><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Arial Black;">
only the spiritually
evolved innerstand this, and a heavy price will have to be paid one
day.</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"> thus
has taught every wise
person in history. well, <big style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">that
day has arrived</big>. now we all need to know
what
real wisdom dictates. and we don't have time for half truths, vague
approximations and mystical mists. we must ask radical,
never-mind-the-bollocks
questions like: </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">were
previous gurus</span><i
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"> </i><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">totally</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"> clear <span
style="font-style: italic;">themselves
</span>of the
contamination they were describing? or must we pick out the jewels
from
the</span><i style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">
shit</i><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">?</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"> <br>
<br>
did they mean their message to last for <i
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">all time</i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">? </span>
or was it
pitched for
a less <i>developed</i> age than ours? or for a time when there was
less<i>
urgency</i>? were they able to speak<i> freely,</i> did they have to <i>disguise</i>
anything? were they recorded <i>accurately</i>? has the recording
been<i>
edited </i>or <i>tampered with</i> by infected historians during the
hundreds
or thousands of years before it reached us? </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">ageism</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">, in
the last
analysis, must be the pinnacle, synthesis, and wholistic final edit of
<span style="font-style: italic;">everything </span>that wisdom or
commonsense ever taught, and thus is
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" lang="EN"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">radically,
upside-down, to-the-barricades different from mere new ageism. </span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><br>
<br>
for all previous wisdom, studied by anyone alive today <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">(</span><i
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">and new
agers have
often studied very many indeed!</i><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">)</span>, was produced and belongs in
a
different historical situation. <br>
<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">"I have yet many things to say unto
you but ye cannot hear them now.
Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you unto
all truth...
And he will shew you things to come." </span></i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jesus.</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><i><br>
</i></span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN"><big><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">NEW</span><sup
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">AGE
WISDOM</span> <span
style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: Arial Black;">COMPLETES</span>
ALL PREVIOUS WISDOM</big></big></span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">agers</span>
</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">understand
implicitly
that all previous wisdom which
separates the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">personal </span>from
the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">planet or vice versa, </span>is
now <span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">outdated</span>.
try it for
yourself.
name a single teacher who ever taught that the kingdom of god is <i>out
there!</i>
yet it both<i> is,</i> and <i>must be!</i> imagine for a moment the
situation
any aware ancient found when he <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"awoke"</span>
and started looking around
with clear, objective eyes. he found a world under the rule of </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial Black;">conquest
and the
sword</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">, steeped in the </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial Black;">divine
right of kings</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">, with a coterie
of
land-owners
lording it over a mass of uneducated peasants, with comfortable
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"priests"</span> or <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"holy men"</span> teaching <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">"detachment"</span> who
could simply move on to the next valley when things got too bloody in
<span style="font-style: italic;">this </span>one.
<br>
<br>
now, though they would<i> almost certainly </i>have understood how
human beings
were<i> meant </i>to live, they had to face the fact that humanity
would need<i>
generations </i>to learn from its errors and <i>e</i>volv<i>e</i>, as
a
species, to a stage where they were <i>ready</i> to hear such stuff.
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">such as
today!</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> thus, in the
hindu ramayana, one of the oldest holy books still
in
existence, when general arjuna agonised over doing battle with his own
brothers, his god krishna could advise him that his duty was to </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">get on
with his
job</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> - that of a
member of the warrior caste. </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><i
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">"it is not
your
business
to worry about such things. this is just the way the world turns. even
the
brahmins and philosophers don't waste energy worrying about it."</i><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"> </span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><br>
<br>
<i>but here's the point:</i> today arjuna is a general in <st1:place
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">
Nuclear Strike Force One</span>, finger
poised on the armageddon button, agonising over killing his own
brothers and
sisters. </span><big><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">is krishna telling him it's none of
his business?!</i><span style="font-family: Arial Black;"> </span></span></big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><br>
<br>
is jesus telling him to render unto caesar the things that are
caesar's? </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">agers</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
say </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">no, a million times no!!!</i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> wisdom glitches
like these
constitute
humanity's greatest danger. there are people, in the military, in
commerce, in
government, who <i>do</i> believe it's their moral duty, <i
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"if
necessary"</i>, to destroy the planet; people who are destroying a bit
more every day, as well as people who are letting it happen year after
year
because they're too busy working at feeling <i>spiritual </i>inside
like their
religion taught them. </span><small><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">agers</span></span></small><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><small> </small>are
that rapidly growing
movement
of people who have accepted passionately that heaven's a potential we
feel
inside which it is our duty to<i> </i></span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">help
achieve outside</span></i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><i> </i>- on this
earth. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">FULL STOP. </span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">any
so-called
wisdom that says different is outdated, partial, or just plain wrong.
what
krishna is telling arjuna today is: </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">"don't quote me out of context,
matey! that heaven-within shit was for an isolated valley in an age of
bows
& arrows. your duty's to the planet, general, <big><big>don't
press that
button!!"</big></big></i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><br>
</span>
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style="color: black;"></span></b><br>
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<span
style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><small><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"></span></span></small><small
style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"></span></small><br>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN"><big><big>WHAT<i>
IS </i>TRUE
WISDOM <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">TELLING US</span>, THEN?</big></big></span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">the
enlightened Ancient, grokking that
humanity was<i> nowhere near </i>ready
for the fully participative democracy hir vision told hir was its
birthright,
had two choices: <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">keep mouth
shut and not even bother</span>. the local
potentate
could run him out of town if he made too much fuss. look what happened
to
socrates, and that's supposed to have been a democracy! <i><sup>OR</sup></i>
try to <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">describe it to his
closest students</span>. but how to talk about one
world
when even they had never visited the next<i> valley?</i> <br>
<br>
and so a
fantastic
rumour began to spread among WoMankind, an often distorted and almost
incredible vision of a state that could be achieved <span
style="font-style: italic;">among all human
beings</span>, a
dream of democracy, an equality of rights and responsibilities. it was
passed
secretively, exclusively underground from generation to generation, </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">the
most
radical and subversive idea on the planet</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">,
never-but-never to be
discussed in
public. and, of course, </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"
lang="EN"><i style="font-family: Arial Black;">never to be written
down!</i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"> so all
previous wisdom
is actually the public stuff that was suitable for family viewing! (</span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><i
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">"look,
look, my little meditation group is really quite harmless - i teach
them that
heaven's</i><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"> within</span><i
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Arial Black;"> and all
you need is love!"</i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">)<br>
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN"><big><big>CHURCH
&
STATE PROMOTED THE TRUTH THAT SUITED <i
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">THEM</i></big></big></span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">by
the time of </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">the
monotheistic roman
christian monopoly</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">, the
wrong turn, had
become so serious that all teachers had to labour under threat of
denunciation,
arrest, torture and outright burning. what were the authorities<i>
really</i>
so afraid of that they burned 9 million dissidents? think about it for
yourself, never mind the experts or the bollocks. if <i>you</i> are
living in
the big house on the hill, </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">you're not
going to tell the peasants down
in the
valley that we're all equal, now are you?</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"> nor
are you going to allow
any tinker
troubadour and his 'gang of students' to tell them. 'course not, <o:p></o:p>you
cut the
buggers' heads off! <i>not </i>because you believe yonder half-wit
king james
is chosen by god, let's be serious, nobody was defending anything as
daft or as
mystical as the divine right of kings; they were defending the <span
style="font-style: italic;">might </span>of
kings
and <i>themselves</i> to <big><i>continue to rule</i>.</big> <br>
<br>
by now it had
become totally
incumbent on the truly wise man to teach his students to </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;">hide their
light</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">. the
world outside was <i>indeed</i> a <i>hypocritically insane and
violent place</i>,
and the christian god really <i>was</i> a jealous god, verily even as
he
advertised. indeed it must have seemed to all but the most imaginative
and
inspired teachers as if things were actually getting <i>worse</i> and
would <i>never</i>
improve. <br>
<br>
for all these very sensible and self-preserving reasons, then,
all
previous forms of wisdom have stressed </span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">the
personal, selfish view of
salvation</span>.</span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">
seek the kingdom of heaven <i>inside</i>, they've told us, know
thyself, to
thine own self be true, the spiritual path, the light within, the inner
truth,
inner wisdom, your inner guide, inner self, overself, higher self,
blessed are
the shat-on for they shall get what's coming to them when they die. <br>
<br>
thus, with
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">hope </span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">or </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">heaven</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN">
relegated within, we have been brainwashed to see our </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);" lang="EN"><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">beautiful
blue- green planet</i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"> as the
materialistic world of illusion, maya, a
dance, a
dream, a pain factory, none of your goddamn business, tend your garden,
live
for the moment, charity begins at home, don't covet your neighbour's
wife,
trust in the laud, blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the
earth.<i>
<u>(</u></i></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><i><u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">bullshit,
brothers!)</span></u></i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"> at the<i>
very</i> best, wisdom promised
(but
only if you keep any hopes to yourself and act like a good sheep all
your life)
there's a judgement day a comin' which will set all things to order
(but no way
in <i>your</i> lifetime!) </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" lang="EN"><i><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><big>well, that day has arrived!</big></big></i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" lang="EN"><i><br>
<br>
<br>
</i></span>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN"><big><big>WITH
HELL <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">REAL
AND AROUND US</span></big></big></span><br
style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN"><big><big>NOW
WE HAVE TO <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">MAKE HEAVEN <span
style="text-decoration: underline;">HERE ON EARTH</span></span></big></big></span><br>
<span style="" lang="EN"></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">such a split
between inner growth & outer
improvement is now not just dated
but<i> </i></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;">dangerous</big></i></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><i>!</i> for now
the ACCUMULATED judgement is here, and
we pay the price
of that wrong turn on every side, in our air & water, our earth
& food,
our psychology & our very souls, <i>everywhere</i>. <br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">the
pleading
screaming
raging fucking sobbing crazy blissed-out scream</span> of our </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">beautiful
bluegreen planetbody</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> is <i>not</i>
for a nation of spiritually odorised initiates secretly preserving
wisdom by "working on themselves" [as if "themselves" were
different from this egg we all share]. it
needs </span><big><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline;"><big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">everyone</span></big></big></big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">, but every single
awakening individual, to shine their
light, to cry their beliefs <sub>from the</sub><sup> rooftops,</sup>
to employ every means short of violence to build heaven on earth.
<br>
<br>
verily, for
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">agers</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">, it's </span><big
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">heaven or hell on <span
style="font-style: italic;">earth</span></span></big></big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span
style="font-style: italic;">. </span><i>you</i> can try
to grab
your own little shard of salvation amidst the cosmic chemical rubble of
your
brothers and sisters if you want, arjuna, but </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">agers</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> <i>care</i>
about our world, and </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">new</span><sup
style="font-family: Arial Black;">2</sup><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">age</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> wisdom says </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><big style="font-family: Arial Black;">there's
no <span style="text-decoration: underline;">personal</span>
salvation</big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">. that was only
ever relatively true. today either everyone's
saved,
or everyone's lost. for the first time in our history everyone can now
see what
only the wisest could see before, namely that we are are all in this <i>together!</i>
(and psssst, <i
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">don't</i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> keep it
secret!!!</span>)<br>
<br>
<big><big><span style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">miracles </span>are </span><span
style="font-style: italic; font-family: Arial Black;">n</span><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">eeded</i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;"> <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">miracles </span>can be </span><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">expected</i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;"> and
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">miracles </span>are </span><i
style="font-family: Arial Black;">happening</i><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">.</span></big></big></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">UP!</span><br>
<br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;" lang="EN-US">
\)</span></b><b style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);" lang="EN-US">)</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-US">)</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;" lang="EN-US">)</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" lang="EN-US">)</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 102);" lang="EN-US">(</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);" lang="EN-US">/</span></b></big><br>
<big><b style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">____,,,,</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">_{</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">ô</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">¿</span></b><b
style="font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">ô</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia; font-family: Arial Black;">}_,,,,_</span></b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia; font-family: Arial Black;"></span></big>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">fraser</span><br
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">and
here's another sign of the fullblooded changes that are ripping through
our culture. you know i've been praying for and predicting a general
economic collapse as woMankind's best hope. why, in the 1980s we used
to direct negative vibes at the stock exchange every friday. well, now
the 'professionals", the old <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">New
Agers</span>, are starting to <big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><big><span
style="font-style: italic;">get it...</span></big></big></span><br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big style="font-family: Arial Black;"><big><span
style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Economic Collapse and Global Ecology</span></big></big><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Given
widespread failure to pursue policies sufficient to reverse
deterioration of the biosphere and avoid ecological collapse, the best
we can hope for may be that the growth- based economic system crashes
sooner rather than later.</span></big></div>
<div style="text-align: right;"><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr.
Glen Barry - <a href="http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/">http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/</a></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
</div>
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Humanity
and the Earth are faced with an enormous conundrum -- </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">sufficient
climate policies enjoy political support only in </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">times
of rapid economic growth. Yet this very 'growth' is the <span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">primary </span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">factor</span>
driving greenhouse gas emissions and other </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">environmental
ills. The growth machine has pushed the planet </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">well
beyond its ecological carrying capacity, and unless </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">constrained,
can only lead to human extinction and an end to </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">complex
life.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">With
every economic downturn, like the one now looming in the </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">United
States, it becomes more difficult and less likely that </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">policy
sufficient to ensure global ecological sustainability </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">will
be embraced. This essay explores the possibility that </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">from
a biocentric viewpoint of needs for long-term global </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">ecological,
economic and social sustainability, <big
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">it would be
</big></span><big style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;">better
for the economic collapse to come now rather than </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">later</span>.</span></big><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Economic
growth is a deadly disease upon the Earth, with </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><big><big
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">capitalism </big></big>as its most
virulent strain. Throw-away consumption </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">and
explosive population growth are made possible by using up </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">fossil
fuels and destroying ecosystems. Holiday shopping </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">numbers
are covered by media in the same breath as Arctic ice </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">melt,
ignoring their deep connection. Exponential economic </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">growth
destroys ecosystems and pushes the biosphere closer to </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">failure.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Humanity
has proven itself </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">unwilling
and unable to address </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">climate
change and other environmental threats with necessary </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">haste
and ambition. </span><br>
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">>> so far, on the surface, but
don't miss the truly gigantic groundswell a'building.<br>
<br>
</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Action
on coal, forests, population, </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">renewable
energy and emission reductions could be taken now at </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">net
benefit to the economy. Yet, the losers -- primarily </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">fossil
fuel industries and their bought oligarchy -- </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">successfully
resist futures not dependent upon their deadly </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">products.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Perpetual economic growth</span>, and
necessary climate and other </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">ecological
policies, are fundamentally incompatible. Global </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">ecological
sustainability depends critically upon establishing </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">a
steady state economy, whereby production is right-sized to </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">not
diminish natural capital. Whole industries like coal and </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">natural
forest logging will be eliminated</span> even as new </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">opportunities
emerge in solar energy and environmental </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">restoration.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">This
critical transition to both economic and ecological </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">sustainability
is simply not happening on any scale. The </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">challenge
is how to carry out necessary environmental policies </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">even
as economic growth ends and consumption plunges. The </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">natural
response is going to be liquidation of even more life- </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">giving
ecosystems, and jettisoning of climate policies, to </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">vainly
try to maintain high growth and personal consumption.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">We
know that humanity must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">at
least 80% over coming decades. How will this and other </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">necessary
climate mitigation strategies be maintained during </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">years
of economic downturns, resource wars, reasonable demands </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">for
equitable consumption, and frankly, the weather being more </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">pleasant
in some places? If efforts to reduce emissions and </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">move
to a steady state economy fail; the collapse of </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">ecological,
economic and social systems is assured.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bright
greens take the continued existence of a habitable </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Earth
with viable, sustainable populations of all species </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">including
humans as the ultimate truth and the meaning of </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">life.
Whether this is possible in a time of economic collapse </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">is
crucially dependent upon whether enough ecosystems and </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">resources
remain post collapse to allow humanity to recover </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">and
reconstitute sustainable, relocalised societies.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">It
may be better for the Earth and humanity's future that </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">economic
collapse comes sooner rather than later, while more </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">ecosystems
and opportunities to return to nature's fold continue to exist. </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Economic
collapse will be deeply wrenching -- part Great </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Depression,
part African famine. There will be starvation and </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">civil
strife, and a long period of suffering and turmoil.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Many
will be killed as balance returns to the Earth. Most </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">people
have forgotten how to grow food and that their identity </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">is
more than what they own. Yet there is some justice, in that </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">those
who have lived most lightly upon the land will have an </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">easier
time of it, even as those super-consumers living in </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">massive
cities finally learn where their food comes from and </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">that
ecology is the meaning of life. <big><span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Economic collapse now </span></big></span><big><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">means
humanity and the Earth ultimately survive to prosper again.</span></big><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Human
suffering -- already the norm for many, but hitting the </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">currently
materially affluent -- is inevitable given the </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">degree
to which the planet's carrying capacity has been </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">exceeded.
We are a couple decades at most away from societal </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">strife
of a much greater magnitude as the Earth's biosphere </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">fails.
Humanity can take the bitter medicine now, and recover </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">while
emerging better for it; or our total collapse can be a </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">final,
fatal death swoon.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A
successful revolutionary response to imminent global </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">ecosystem
collapse would focus upon bringing down the Earth's </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">industrial
economy <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">NOW</span>. As society
continues to fail miserably </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">to
implement necessary changes to allow creation to continue, </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">maybe
the best strategy</span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
is <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">economic sabotage</span> to
hasten the day. It is </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">more
fragile than it looks.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Humanity
is a marvelous creation. Yet her current dilemma is </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">unprecedented.
It is not yet known whether she is able to </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">adapt,
at some expense to her comfort and short-term well- </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">being,
to ensure survival. If she can, all futures of </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">economic,
social and ecological collapse can be avoided. If </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">not
it is better from a long-term biocentric viewpoint that </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">the
economic growth machine collapse now, bringing forth the </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">necessary
change, and offering hope for a planetary and human </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">revival.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<br
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I
wish no harm to anyone, and want desperately to avoid these </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">prophesies
foretold by ecological science. I speak for the </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Earth,
for despite being the giver of life, her natural voice </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">remains
largely unheard over the tumult.<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">UP!</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br>
<br>
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</span>
<big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><big><big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;"></span></big></big></big></div>
<big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><big><big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;">A <big
style="text-decoration: underline;"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Surge</span></big><big><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span></big>of <span
style="text-decoration: underline;">More</span> Lies</span></big></big></big><br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: right;"> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congressman
Robert Wexler</span><br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: right;">Politics.gather.com<br>
</div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">A new <big
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">troubling myth</big> has taken hold
in Washington. According to the mainstream media, Republicans,
and unfortunately even some Democrats, the President's <big><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">surge </span></big>in Iraq has been
a resounding success. </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); text-decoration: underline;"><big
style="font-family: Arial Black;">Nothing could be further from the
truth.</big></span><br>
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The assertion
is <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">disingenuous, factually
incorrect,</span> and <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">negatively
impacts America's national security</span>. The <big
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Surge </big>had a clear and defined
objective - to create stability and security - enabling the Iraqi
government to enact lasting political solutions and foster genuine
reconciliation and cooperation between Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<big
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: Arial Black; text-decoration: underline;">This
has not happened</big><big
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: Arial Black;">.</big><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">There has been <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">negligible political progress</span>
in Iraq, and we are no closer to s</span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">olving the
complex problems -
including a power sharing government, oil revenue agreement and new
constitution - than we were before the Administration upped the ante
and sent 30,000 extra troops to Iraq.</span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Of course
raising troop levels has increased security - a strategy the Bush
administration ignored when presented by General Shinseki before the
war in Iraq began - but <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); text-decoration: underline;">the
fundamental internal Iraqi problems remain.</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <big>The
reduction in violence, in fact, has exposed the continuing <span
style="font-style: italic;">failure </span>of Iraqi officials to
solve their substantial political rifts</big>. By President
Bush's own stated goal of political progress, the <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Surge </span>has failed. </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">For, despite the
efforts of American soldiers, the surge alone can never bring about the
required political solutions.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">As it stands,
little on the ground supports the assertion that Iraqis are ready to
stand up and govern themselves. Too few Iraqi troops are trained,
equipped and combat ready, and they cannot yet provide adequate
security. Loyalty is also an issue in the Iraqi army as <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Al Queda</span> and <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Sunni </span>insurgents infiltrate
their defense forces. The consequences turned deadly just
recently when an Iraqi soldier purposely killed two U.S. troops.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Baghdad </span>and <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Mosul</span>, the Sunni and Shia
factions have paused their fighting, awaiting guarantees and
protections that have not yet been delivered. As Iraqi refugees
return, there is no mechanism to help them rebuild their lives, nor
recover their now-occupied homes. Neighborhoods once mixed are
now segregated.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Northern Iraq</span>, <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Kurd</span>ish terrorists conducting
nefarious operations across the border into <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Turkey </span>have compelled our
NATO ally to strike at bases, inflaming tensions between Baghdad and
Ankara.</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Further, while
the Administration over-commits American forces in Iraq, we see <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Al Qaeda</span>-regrouping and Osama
Bin Laden still at large. We remain seriously bogged down in <span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Afghanistan</span>, and are
witnessing a crisis in <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Pakistan
</span>that has left a nuclear country on the brink of a meltdown. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The
surge is working? America suffered more U.S. casualties in 2007
than in any other year of the war. It can't afford any more of
this type of success.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The situation
most likely to deliver political progress is not by continuing the
surge and occupation but (there is no guarantee) by putting real
pressure on the Iraqi government to force action. Telling the
national and local Iraqi leaders that we are withdrawing our troops can
help accomplish this goal. Today, the majority Iraqi Shia
government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has little incentive
to act when American troops remain in the country to provide security
and stability.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Based on the
Administration's plan, John McCain's proposal of <big><big>a 100-year
US occupation could be a reality!</big></big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">>>
except that the american public is currently putting the Old Dinos out
to grass, while praying that not TOO much damage has already been done.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">UP!<br>
</span></span><big><big><font color="#0000ff"><br>
</font></big></big>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big><big><font color="#0000ff"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">backlash against </span></font><font
color="#0000ff"><span style="font-weight: bold;">incandescent bulbs? </span></font></big></big><br>
</div>
<font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You'll have
spotted that there's a backlash against the proposed phasing
out of incandescent bulbs? Energy efficient bulbs apparently poison
you
with mercury, cause epilepsy and migraine, and even cancer, and the
skin
professionals are allegedly up in arms [well one person quoted in the
Mail] over light-sensitive patients - <big><big>can you believe these
dumb clucks?
</big></big><br>
<br>
Light sensitive people are used to coping with their problem and no one
is suggesting they be exposed to long periods of energy efficient bulbs
just for the hell of it. The mercury is <big><big>truly minute</big></big>
and hundreds of
bulbs would have to be smashed to get a measurable amount. They are
less
flickery than fluorescent tubes; which is what they're basing the
epileptic
allegation on, and having lived with them for over 20 years I can say
they have had <big><big>nil effect on our health.</big></big><br>
<br style="font-weight: bold;">
</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">
I'm interested in the psychology of those who have to criticise every
green move. They're always right wing, and they appear to see it as a
leftist conspiracy [have you noticed?] despite most leftists being as
slow as everyone else to cotton on to what's in store if we don't
change.
But the loony critics are always of the right.<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">pete password, herefordshire,
uk.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
</span></font><span
style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">UP!</span></span><br>
<font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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