« Todd Baxter steps up | Main | Who's your Dada? » Joi, Doors of Perception, GandhiJoi posted about his Doors of Perception experience (I was going to link to the conference web site, but it seems to be broken at the moment), and his realization that his integrity can be compromised when he's speaking ("I realized that I was compromising and in fact evening softening my words assuming that the video of my presentation might end up on the Internet and that I would have to defend any hardline positions I took."). I feel his pain. So many of us want to improve the state of the world, but we really don't know the world at all. We see slices of the world, our perceptions colored by class biases that we never see; we have a blind spot. Our life style is probably doomed, because the 21st Century world has no room for wealth or privilege. I'm pretty well off now, compared to the rest of the world. I have a six-planet ecological footprint. I really don't *think* I'm that well off, much of the time, because I take so much for granted. If there is a leveling effect, if the rest of the world, including developing nations, gets something like an equal share of the planet's limited resources, I'll have to change my life style, radically. And so will you. Joi asks What would Gandhi do?, and I confess that I have no idea. Perhaps he would blog. Perhaps he would tell me, and Joi, and so many others, that the life we've made for ourselves is a lie, that we should look inward and cultivate silence. [Link] jon posted this at 12:21 AM |
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