I think I'm going to have to live up to the "radical" in the title of this blog. The thing is that I don't feel so radical when I'm writing. (I hear my sisters chanting "write more, Mary, write more"!)
The thing behind my radical ideas is that I care passionately about people. I even care about the people I don't like and the ones I don't agree with. I believe that our world cannot be ideal until we are all ready to agree on that ideal or something close to it. Otherwise we could all live in self governing communities and could choose the one that suits us most. But still, we would need ground rules because we share the same air, the same water.
I think that right now we have too many rules, written and unwritten, enforced and ingrained. So much history that keeps us down and institutions that clip our wings. Our social norms dictate that we be domesticated. And now the western world faces economic austerity measures. Yes, Canadians they are coming here too.
Now, I do think we should protest injustice. And governments are going to try to make us believe that the debt is ours. But whether or not we protest, I suggest we embrace simple living now. Lets turn off our screens, lights, heaters, air conditioners and go outside and play as much as possible. Make a bucket list of things that cost nothing, that make no carbon footprint. If you have to travel in a car to go to the country, fill your car with people, so they can enjoy it too.
It all comes down to respect for life and community.
Powerful people, in general, don’t seen to have respect for the lives of others. And we need to speak out against this injustice. But if I respect my own life, my own body, if I spend my time as well as I can and help whoever I can along the way, then I’m doing my part.
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