Its not about a revolution, but rather an EVOLUTION
So i started out as a typical liberal college student... I was anti this and anti that, and new technology is bad and globalization is bad and blah blah blah, but recently something has shifted in my viewpoint. I don't know if this maturity or my increased knowledge base, but I'm now beginning to see that its not so much as opposing the current system as seeing the evolution of it.
See whether we like it or not life is today, right here, right now. These systems these sets of beliefs have evolved from a mindblowing number of different factors. You can't isolate one thing and blame it, you have the start from the present, from today, and say "ok this is how the world is, now what can it become".
Almost everything can be looked at this way...
Technology- some argue that its horrible it causes lonliness, isolation, a.d.d., ect ect. OR you can look at it like technology has given us the freedom of mobility, the increased bonds with our intimate relationships like family and best friends, and as far as ADD goes, perhaps it is a symptom of an evolving brain function and maybe ADD is just the result of our world not yet reflecting the different, faster processing of information.
Materialism/ consumerism- alot of people scoff at these things and say they horrible. some liberals rebel against it completely, but the fact of the matter is that our heightened sense of individualism felt at the present time INCLUDES humans indentifying themselves through their materials. Again, here we are right now in the consumerism world, dont rebel against it, accept it, embrace it, and then expand upon it. See we tend to think for consumerism as a bad thing because of the depletion of resources; however, these are not equally exchangeable variables (consumerism and depletion of resources). They ARE sustainable practices. They are ways in which we can EVOLVE from the way we identify ourselves to include these practices.
Globalization- George Soros said it best, "Antiglobalization activists are woefully misguided when they try to destroy the international institutions that ensure these public goods. To "sink or shrink" the World Trade organization would be counterproductive; it would destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs. Instead of agitating against the WTO, they ought to be fighting for equally effective institutions that would serve the social goals that they seek."
Here Soros is arguing that international markets have evolved faster than international social rights. He see that we have global markets but not global politics to check them. So again instead of saying well the present is WRONG; well no, it is what it is, lets evolve from that and begin to check the global financial markets with equal global rights institutions.
EVOLVE EVOLVE EVOLVE EVOLVE.
Glad to have finally found my calling in life.
See whether we like it or not life is today, right here, right now. These systems these sets of beliefs have evolved from a mindblowing number of different factors. You can't isolate one thing and blame it, you have the start from the present, from today, and say "ok this is how the world is, now what can it become".
Almost everything can be looked at this way...
Technology- some argue that its horrible it causes lonliness, isolation, a.d.d., ect ect. OR you can look at it like technology has given us the freedom of mobility, the increased bonds with our intimate relationships like family and best friends, and as far as ADD goes, perhaps it is a symptom of an evolving brain function and maybe ADD is just the result of our world not yet reflecting the different, faster processing of information.
Materialism/ consumerism- alot of people scoff at these things and say they horrible. some liberals rebel against it completely, but the fact of the matter is that our heightened sense of individualism felt at the present time INCLUDES humans indentifying themselves through their materials. Again, here we are right now in the consumerism world, dont rebel against it, accept it, embrace it, and then expand upon it. See we tend to think for consumerism as a bad thing because of the depletion of resources; however, these are not equally exchangeable variables (consumerism and depletion of resources). They ARE sustainable practices. They are ways in which we can EVOLVE from the way we identify ourselves to include these practices.
Globalization- George Soros said it best, "Antiglobalization activists are woefully misguided when they try to destroy the international institutions that ensure these public goods. To "sink or shrink" the World Trade organization would be counterproductive; it would destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs. Instead of agitating against the WTO, they ought to be fighting for equally effective institutions that would serve the social goals that they seek."
Here Soros is arguing that international markets have evolved faster than international social rights. He see that we have global markets but not global politics to check them. So again instead of saying well the present is WRONG; well no, it is what it is, lets evolve from that and begin to check the global financial markets with equal global rights institutions.
EVOLVE EVOLVE EVOLVE EVOLVE.
Glad to have finally found my calling in life.