In reference to David Hutt's correspondence appended......
Anyone see any of the stuff on the toob lately about the phone soliciting "boiler rooms" where young people are being trained to defraud people of money via credit card charged "investments" and donations? They are especially targeting elderly, and using the ruse of befriending lonely people to divest them of whatever sums they have available. Hustling youngsters making good money at an "honest" job...? ... trained to follow scripts written by their employers... paid a commission on the take.....
MLM is right next door. Quick buck. No vote of confidence for anything related to quick bucks unless they can be made within the context of justice and sustainability.
The problems David is talking about here are problems on dozens of levels.
The whole society is pretty sick.
Gang stuff is based in many factors, including faux culture.... in North East L.A. where I grew up .... "the Avenues" (los Avenidas) there were gangs in the mid 50's .... gang members had brothers, even fathers who had been involved in the gangs .... it was (and still is) endemic to the local culture.
If you look long enough and hard enough there is eventually a dawning of the light that our society has been molded and stratified by and in accordance with the demands of an autocratic capital wealth collective "entity" ... whether you believe this is by accident or by design will depend upon continuing to look long and hard.....
All of the things that make no sense fall into perfect clarity if you can {understand, intuit, postulate, study} your way into a vision of the entity commonly known as
"the Beast." <g> <:-( (grin, sad)
I've seen it, and it's not a pretty sight. I almost wish I could put the chicken (vision) back into the egg (innocent blissful ignorance).
Anyone who hasn't gotten the big picture on this will find local manifestations of it to work on curing in various manners which may do some good locally in the short term.
Anyone who HAS "gotten it" can see how wars, drugs, gangs, institutionalized/enculturated poverty, law'n'orderism, consumerism, the media,
petrochemicals, "modern medicine", ..... well, you already KNOW ! it's all one piece.
There is a "scientific" maxim known as Occam's razor. It states (roughly) that the simplest answer (which is fully fuctional) to a (perhaps complex) theoretical question is most likely the correct one.
What is the simplest answer to the question of how this beautiful and in many ways perfectly divine creation of a world we inhabit has come to be so despoiled, and our interrelations as spiritual beings having a human experience subject to such onslaughts?
A whole systems visioning of the world as it is yields the gestalt of the "beast".
Discovering the corporeal components of the beast is not extremely difficult.
Follow the M-O-N-E-Y .......
There is a little joke the beast has perpetrated that has placed into popular consciousness the notion that there is a truism/quote which states: "money is the root of all evil" ... the actual truth and quote is "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil"
If you have eyes to see and ears to hear you will have noticed many little twists of truth and of true human needs, functions, and feelings that assiduously serve the gestalt I name the "beast." If you would like to sharpen your abilities to see beneath the illusion that the world is as it is due to the little mishaps that occur to well-meaning people and institutions, I would suggest the following as an excellent source:
http://www.trufax.org
Our whole systems visioning of a New Civilization must take into account this aspect of old civiliaztion.
I heard a powerful and moving modern rock tune a while back.... deeply painful artistic sharing of one man's vision of "the beast".......
it was entitled (a little toungue in cheek ala postal worker syndrome)
"If I had a Rocket Launcher"
well, we won't be buying into any arms race, but I like to think of NCF's potential large scale funding of as a sort of rocket launcher aimed at the heart of the beast.
Your job, should you decide to accept it, is to vision and build a NewCiv whose whole systems are powerfully supportive of the truth without the little twists, and inhospitable to the methods and nature of the beast, which may find it's final rest in the early history of the new millenium.....
http://www.newciv.org
Dave. ~ Think for Yourself. Question Authority
~ Globalize Consciousness Localize Economies
Dave Hartley (808) 879-7997 http://www.maui.net/~compudav
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In a message dated 97-11-28 01:25:57 EST, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< "Welcome to our dialogue"
Thank you , Alex!
About my project in working with potential drug dealing kids- our
absurd
War on Drugs demonizes a 12-year-old who sells another kid a joint -
makes
him into Al Pacino! Also, gang members, though they flunk
non-encroachment
101, are generally better at keeping their word than we are! They want
to
make money, and they don't want to work at McDonlads for $5 an hour.
Let them sell vitamins, food, sneakers, etc in a multi-level-marketing
format-
which, while not great, is far superior to dealing crack, heroin, etc.
I know enough about the problems with MLM to minimize them, but
it
does give the kids a chance to make a semi-honest buck!
Before anyone stats flaming me, please consider that methadone is
not
great, but addicts can take it as a substitute for heroin, and have some
semblance
of love, balance, and order in their lives. I personally prefer spiritual
methods of
healing, but I cannot convince every kid Iwork with to try out-of-body
experience
through meditation rather than drugs! I hope to be working with Ethan
Nadelmann
of the Lindesmith Institute, in my judgement, the most brilliant and
respected
critic of the current drug policy around!
Thanks again, Alex! David Hutt
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