Dangerous idea?

Sun Nov 21 01:17:55 PST 2004

For me every major industry sector/profession/governmental form needs to
be questioned as to whether there is one thing it could do differently
to stand up for humanity rather than spin badwill

Take broadcast media for example. Why is it that the content of over 90%
of tv news is bad news, violence etc? It seems in the broadest metrics
sense it is because bad news is more attention grabbing (apparently
urgent) and visual. Unless we can show good news, coverage of
humanitarian heroes, the issues they want communicated into society's
everyday psyche and action-demands can get as much audience, or find a
way of simultaneously intervening (millions of people petitioning
broadcast media), I guess we will have to live with mass media spinning
messages that are broadly anti-human

The trouble gets bigger when you ponder 2 things

1 What I have just tried to illustrate for the broadcast media sector
can be done for most big industry sectors (few put humanity first in
what drives their system - see eg www.thecorporation.com )

I define the networking world to be one in which badwill systems attract
and spin each other, as do goodwill ones. But how do we scale goodwill
ones to have as much scale as badwill ones. Make a list of the world's
100 most powerful organisational/sector systems, where are the ones that
you trust as systemically spinning humanity's side as opposed to the
opposite? I sure need to see that listing of the biggest goodwill powers
to trust interconnecting with

Chris macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
Volatility club tries to map back why so many sectors are prone to turn
against humanity http://volatilityclub.blogspot.com/

Water - yes many of us feel water may be the first or last stand for
humanity: if we cannot open space universal understanding around
something as simple, natural as water as a human right then how are we
going to unite around more specialist issues for humanity. I invite
people to do this exercise and I will report back collated connections -
mail me at wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk - how many degrees of freedom are you
away from some person (or network coordinator) who spends time doing
something human for water. 1 means you know the person directly; 2 means
a friend of yours knows that person 3 a friend of a friend etc

Examples In my case

1 Coordinator of catholic College of Bishops in Brazil who made 2004
Year of water across Brazil's 5500 Parishes

1 inventor's community of architects that can turn arid areas into
beautiful places to live (more widely I believe this network
disseminates the idea that most places have either solar power of water
power but don't architect with the maximum use of that they have; we
need showcases for all to see and dare I say broadcasters to openly
praise)

2 Minister of Water at China's Ministry of Water

2 Anita Roddick, author of Troubled Water, www.troubledwater.org
founder of Business Shop, up there in many people's nominations of
world's most responsible businesswomen

Could we do this with other issues that water>
-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil
Culhane
Sent: 21 November 2004 02:42
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Dangerous idea?

Amen to that.

I wish more Americans would stop to ask why some Saudi Moslems decided
to
ram some planes into some buildings...and why other Moslems around the
world
cheered - rather than sending more troops, more bombs.

>From the point of view of much of the rest of the world, we (speaking
for
first world North Americans as a stereotypical group now, forgive me),
are
more than incredibly lucky...we're incredibly greedy! So much wealth,
and
all we can focus on doing is expropriating most of what's left for
ourselves.

I often wonder how much "terrorism" would remain if all that money being
poured into the U.S. War Machine were poured into clean water, health
and
education around the world - not trying to Americanize everyone, but
just
using our position of incredible good fortune to help the rest of
humanity
enjoy their lives, their ways.

-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Harrison
Owen
Sent: November 20, 2004 9:26 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Dangerous idea?

Doug -- I guess I have to say that if we were to resort to viruses, the
other guys would have won. I think we might spend our time better
attempting
to create conditions under which the terrorist behavior is no longer
supported by those they (the terrorists) purport to champion. On the
face of
it I see little difference between a beheading of some poor soul and a
US
Marine blowing away a wounded Iraqi prisoner. Barbaric symptoms all.

Harrison

Harrison Owen
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