Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from HISTORY?
WIBCI the word IMMIGRANT wasn’t a dirty word? When were YOUR ancestors immigrants? When did YOUR lineage switch from immigrants to citizens? Lucky it wasn’t today huh?
What do YOU think?… more “WIBCI Post #39”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from HISTORY/WRITTEN WORD?
The Tragedy of the Commons, is the concept popularized in 1968 by ecologist Garrett Hardin as an economic problem where individuals exploit shared resources for personal/selfish gain leading to overuse, demand outstripping supply, overuse and depletion.
In the story there is a lake that supplies food for a nearby village. There are four fisherman and the lake has 12 fish; each pair will produce a full size fish overnight. If each fisherman takes one fish each day, there will remain 4 pairs of fish that will have 4 fish overnight, equaling 12 fish and therefore; the lake will continuously supply the village with food every day.
If one fisherman takes two fish the lake will quickly be depleted and there will be no food for the village.
AKA
What’s good for all of us is good for each of us.
Imagine if our current leaders understood this…………
What do YOU Think?
Watch this Great video on ted.com… more “WIBCI Post #38”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from HISTORY and POLITICS?
“The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in the shadows of life — our needy, our sick, our handicapped. Third, those in the twilight of life — our elderly.”
-Hubert Humphrey (U.S. Vice President from 1965 to 1969)
How do YOU think our government treats these three groups?… more “WIBCI Post #37”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from LITERATURE?
“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”
-Pearl Buck (author of Good Earth etc.)
What do YOU think is the test of a civilization?
How do YOU think we care for our ‘helpless members’?… more “WIBCI Post #36”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from WRITTEN WORD/LITERATURE/LYRICS?
‘They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.’
-Kurt Cobain
Are YOU more different or more the same?
Are the people YOU admire in the ‘public eye’ more different or more the same?
Are the people YOU admire in personal life more different or more the same?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from LITERATURE?
In an essay by George Orwell about Charles Dickens, he says that the constant message throughout Dickens’ novels is:
‘If men behaved decently, the world would be decent.’
He doesn’t speak of upending the existing systems, nor give suggestions on how to fix that which is broken he just brings truths to our attention.
What do YOU think about his statement? Do YOU think this is still true today? Why or why not?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If: Everything were more honest?
WIBCI: We knew which or how much of the content in; emails, websites, blogs, emails, books, articles, and emails were created by AI?
That way we could put as much effort into reading it as was put into creating it.
AI is Stupid
What do YOU think?… more “WIBCI Post #32”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from HISTORY?
In 1789 after the fall of the Bastille prison in Paris, the beginning the French Revolution, the key to the Bastille was given to the honored Marquis de Lafayette who was instrumental in the success of the American Revolution.
Over many months, this key was shipped overseas, passing through the hands of Thomas Paine, eventually being presented to George Washington. This key was displayed in Mount Vernon.
Lafayette, and many French people were influenced and inspired by George Washington and the American Revolution they helped win.
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If leaders today honored and unselfishly appreciated each other?
What do YOU think?… more “WIBCI Post #31”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from PHILOSOPHY?
In The Republic by Plato, Socrates discusses the four chief virtues necessary for justice to thrive in a city/State:
COURAGE, MODERATION, JUSTICE and WISDOM.
Take a present day leader and each of these four words….do YOU think they honor and exhibit these virtues?
What do YOU think of these four words?
Picture someone YOU admired as a kid, did they have all four virtues?
Do YOU?… more “WIBCI Post #30”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from LITERATURE?
‘The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment… Behold, it is walking and advancing. It seems the victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives with his legions, superstitions; with his sword, despotism; with his banner, ignorance… He advances, he threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our side…
What have we to fear, we who believe?
No such thing as a backflow of ideas exists any more than there exists a return of a river on its course.
But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When they say no to progress, it is not the future but themselves that they are condemning.’
-Victor Hugo Les Misérables
Seems like the world was out of control when Victor wrote this. Reminds me a bit about today. I do desire a future and have reflected on this matter. One issue I have is that I think ‘Progress’ differs to a lot of people. Having more than enough is NOT progress for me and seems to be the stem of all our evils.
What do YOU think?… more “WIBCI Post #29”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from HISTORY?
There is a saying: Bread and Circus. You may have heard this before, but think about it.
In Roman times this was a political tactic to give the populace enough food and entertainment so they were hungry, but not starving, and likewise, entertained/distracted from the toil of their lives just long enough so they weren’t worrying about surviving, but not enough leisure where they would begin to consider society as a whole. Bonus is, the status quo can continue on with whatever anti-humanity activities behind the curtain while throwing scraps of meat and spectacles from their cushioned boxes.
Can YOU relate this activity to today? Replace ‘Bread‘ with Opinions, ‘Circus‘ with Social Media, and consider the ‘status quo’ as the 1%ers. Can YOU relate this activity to today?… more “WIBCI Post #28”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from PHILOSOPHY and HISTORY?
Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that:
– a free society must be dominated by its middle class, when the middle class is flourishing it moderates the gulf between rich and poor. It forestalls the development of a two class society which can become a civil war waiting to happen.
Rousseau also believes, and history has taught us, that civil strife always takes liberty as its first casualty.
What do YOU think about the Middle Class?… more “WIBCI Post #27”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from POLITICS?
All the departments that are being closed, all the programs that are being defunded, and all the jobs that were lost……where is the $ that is saved/stolen/defunded going exactly?
Do YOU know where the $ went?… more “WIBCI Post #26”
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from PHILOSOPHY?
‘First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.’
-Mahatma Gandhi
If YOU are in the game, which stage are YOU at?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from HISTORY?
‘When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.’
-President Richard Nixon before he was impeached and removed from office
What do YOU think?
