READing is good for you

no dude. i like skiing so im on the right one. you can think now and then... try it, it doesnt hurt. i bet some of your friends even do it sometimes... though im sure they wouldnt tell you and make sure theyre alone and no one will ever find out. i bet some idolized pro skiers even do it on occasion. in fact, you might even have to do it too someday after high school.
 
Just read part one. The writing seems a little bit facetious but some really good points in there. The section on our condemnation of corporate entities and those who "have the power to make a difference" in order to vindicate ourselves of guilt by denying the essential role that we, the functioning power base upon which our system is built, play was particularly poignant and really struck a chord with my thoughts of late.

The bit on the loss of morality in today's society as a result of the reduction of everything to uniform and soulless numbers was also pretty good.

"Even now, science can’t say why we ought not to harm the environment

except to say that we shouldn’t be self-destructive. Another of these

lost spiritual children was our very relation as human beings to the

mystery of Being as such."

I do still believe that there are pragmatic and productive approaches to effecting change working within/alongside the existing systems regardless of how flawed they are, and we need to embrace these as I see a change on the scale that this author deems necessary almost an impossibility in the current global climate.

I'll read part two a little later, thanks for posting.
 
as i see it "value" is arbitrary and as ridiculously implausible as it would be, changing the definition of wealth and value seems to me the essential solution.
 
as i first looked at the link address i thought it said the onion... so i was waiting for it to get funny... then i realized it said orion... so.. yeah.
 
i actually do enjoy thinking, thats why im in the thinkers cult but i don't feel like reading for 10 minutes to provoke a discussion or opinion
 
a: thats statement makes you a retard

b: fuck cults

c: tele........... read it, one point to me. onward and upward with the crusade against incompetence.
 
I even just read part two, really completed it, pulled together alot of the loose ends I was feeling in part one. I guess that's why it had two parts.

Great tolstoy quote in there, really underscored the whole thing. 'A people’s religion is “the principle by which they live.”'

I also really enjoyed the section about the foolishness of waiting for catastrophic events to necessitate change, a viewpoint that is really appealing to many who feel discouraged, disenfranchised and most of all frustrated with their inability to effect visible change in the modern world.

"Unfortunately, simply waiting for catastrophe doesn’t ensure that

anything good will follow from it, as Darfur has illustrated. It’s true

that there will be opportunities to create locally based and

sustainable communities, but it’s also true that fascism, barbarism,

and regression are possible."
 
shoulda put YES HUGE HOMO HERE WILL SUCK U OFF FOR ADVANCE OF NEW POORBOYZ VID!!

im not reading all that shit
 
if i wanted to read a four page article I would just be doing my hw right now instead of being on newschoolers...
 
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