Democracy is doomed by corruption, indifference and conflict
His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the prophet of the deep jungle
Canada, but for the most part it is plagued by corruption and
indifference in rich nations and it brings total chaos to little
nations such as Haiti and Ivory Coast...
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Tuesday
that the Ivory Coast faces "a real risk" of return to civil war with
mercenaries being recruited from neighboring countries.
Ban thanked the U.N. General Assembly for its support for Africa's
position, backed by the U.N., that opposition leader Alassane Ouattara
defeated President Laurent Gbagbo in the recent election.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101221/ap_on_re_us/un_un_ivory_coast
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For the average Western citizen there's no escape from consumption and
pollution, and elsewhere it puts survival to the test. I TORE OFF MY
DRIVER'S LICENSE and I will try to survive with my folding bike for a
while. Today it seemed as if I rode head on at a car, but it swerved.
I wasn't suicidal, just that there were pedestrians on the sidewalk
and I made a dash to pass them.
But things like that go unnoticed around here. A fancy mixed path is
built with little benefit to the community, but it's left unfinished
where you must take chances on sidewalks. Indifference and corruption
are a way of life.
THE DEEP JUNGLE LIES UNDER THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL.
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His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the prophet of the deep jungle
choices:
'Today’s economics is “hunter economics.” We need to move to a more
holistic “hunter-gatherer economics.” That means providing an account
of all the discernment and selection women bring to shopping, dating
back to their training, millenia ago, in the art of telling one tiny
poisonous red berry from another tiny, slightly less red, but non-
poisonous berry.'
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/05/28/the-hunter-gatherer-theory-of-markets-and-shopping/
It doesn't say it there, but I interpret that the SUV is the hunting
tool of choice among men, and some women.
A bicycle, by contrast, would be about gathering. The problem is how
difficult it is for the gatherers to survive among the hunters.
How do we move to gathering as an acceptable way of life? We need
livable communities first of all, not gated communities. My campaign
of 'BIKE LOCALLY, BUY LOCALLY' makes sense once again.
His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the prophet of the deep jungle
On Dec 22, 11:55 am, "love&peace" <williamu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> And while the reverse is slow and, of course, painful, one wish the
> jungle is selectively cleared to spared some edible fruits for the
> monkeys.And come to think of it, one might be tempted to join you in
> the jungle; except that dictatorship rules its citizens.
The jungle offers both a temptation and a danger to the monkey. He
wisely remains on the treetops from which he has a vantage point. He
knows the dangers and the traps in the jungle as well as where
conditions are fairly clear.
Some gorillas have offered a solution only to turn out worse. The
choice is not A or B, but A, B or C. Those who offer to get rid of all
predators are predators themselves.
Now let's take a country as example, say Brazil, where conditions are
mostly jungle. The city of Curitiba is an example of civilization
where in other cities gangs run the drug trade. First step though is
to determine something IS a jungle and take it from there...
Say that Japan, Canada and Northern Europe are not a jungle and
proceed to apply solutions everywhere. Gated Communities and SUVs are
a sure sign of jungle (gorillas in the midst) as it is the lack of
healthcare. Oh, we don't need to fight a War on Drugs, which creates
the most dangerous conditions.
His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the prophet of the deep jungle
gatherer, which is some sort of "missing link" in the Christian fairy
tales)
I went hunting for related info and I found this...
(shopping at the supermarket)
"By the time you have finished your list has become obsolete and your
trolley overflowing once again with lots of things that will sit in
cupboards and freezers until your next clear out.
So why do we let this happen to us time and time again? I think it's
the hunter-gather in us. Nowadays we hunt and gather in shops instead
of forests but we still like the thrill of the hunt. Now the hunt is
for offers and getting something we think is valuable for less. We
don't like to feel we are missing out on something so we will buy it
telling ourselves we have saved money, so it's a good thing.
Supermarkets play on our desire for a bargain and we fall for it every
time."
http://ezinearticles.com/?Shopping---The-Hunter---Gatherer-Effect&id=482575
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So the predators know what makes the people buy, but the Christians
don't have a clue. That's the price of ignoring our past and the
effect of our hunting practices. The hunter comes when they get in
their SUV with all the gathered stuff. A bicycle, on the other hand,
would put a limit on the bags to be carried.
One more time the Wisdom of the Jungle comes handy in our daily
choices. ;)