[Mind's Eye] Re: The Protocols of Reaction

Creating order from chaos requires entering into the chaos. We are
often too content to rest in outdated but comfortable social orders.
The balance of individual and consensus reality becomes infinite in
mutual creativity. Finding and maintaining that point in experience
is a real challenge. Once found, old orders fall away, new orders are
created, the circles of familiarity become smaller and at the same
time eternal as folks capable of sharing the unseen unite in action.
Rome burns, and a new order emerges. Yet all we can see or feel is
Rome burning. Why?

On Aug 20, 2:57 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/08/civil-disorder-and-loo...
>
> We had riots in England a couple of weeks ago.  Our media was full of
> people, including reporters, stating this was a new issue and
> unprecedented.  I did not believe this as I watched - though I did see
> a great deal I recognised from GTA games.  The above link to the
> Economist makes use of a book by Pearson I read years ago - it casts a
> very different view that our riots were really only history repeating
> itself.
>
> I don't believe human thought can 'rid itself' of emotional response
> (or should).  I do believe we can do better than 'knee-jerk reactions'
> - but I also believe this is quite difficult and beyond many people
> left to their own devices.  I believe our democracies are weak at the
> moment and that this is because we can't argue very well - hence
> politicians appeal to much that is populist and wrong using highly
> dubious techniques.
>
> I'm sure I could identify the protocols that appeal to 'ignorant
> Idols' that lead to situations of 'nopolitics' in our societies and
> thus the rule of the very rich through "economics" in a way far more
> centralised than any politburo.
>
> I've pretty much given up on democracy.  Teaching is very frustrating
> because you want to encourage self-learning and resourceful human
> beings and also know this is too much for most - democracy is
> similar.  The struggle is knowing this and not wanting to be elitist
> and sneer at others.  I succeed a bit in 'adventures with ideas' but
> the same mistakes in reaction crop up time and time and time again in
> wider social action.
>
> I wonder if outing the protocols of the dreary positions people take
> in reaction could help us actually find dialogue?