Who are we? Novelty, tradition, self or other. It’s been a while since a post spoke so deeply to my heart as this one. I can’t even begin to process the thoughts in my heart and head but I know this has spoken very very deeply within and that this will change me on a profound level. I urge you to watch this.
Some time ago, I posted a link to Tim Jackson’s “Big Ideas” podcast from the ABC’s RN, titled “Prosperity without growth”. I still listen to this often in my car….. it’s a brilliant talk.
Because I see no other way to achieve “Prosperity without growth” without cancelling debts, I started searching for more recent talks by Tim Jackson, and found this piece below. It doesn’t quite say “cancel all debts”, it’s like everyone’s scared of saying the words……. but this comes close. Enjoy.
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Living a debt free simple life is the ultimate hope for the world. Getting out of the middle mens pockets and back into the black, growing your own food, building simple small structures from natural materials and not going so far out on a limb that you could find yourself ruined by next week if there was a financial collapse and your debts were called in. People just don’t think about it…it is easier to just not think about it and keep shoving things onto that credit card…
Most of the world lives a simple life. We lucky few who can buy what we want when we want it and have access to the wonderful “never never” of credit without the threat of indentured slavery if we fail to pay are in the minority.
I doubt that anyone would offer us credit 😉 Where has your avatar gone?
Stupid Avatar. It was a nightmare getting it to work the first time around! 😦
Did you change your image or something because you are just a blank head now 😦
Probablt better looking then. 😛
You are back! 🙂
Think that fixed it. I’d changed the email address to which my notifications came on one of my blogs. Now the gravatar is attached to both addresses. 🙂
It’s happy again, you can be monitored appropriately by our powers that be again…can’t be mucking around with the qi now girl! 😉
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Lump-in-the-throat stuff, wasn’t it? We are all we have. We’re a group species. We can’t go it alone. I only hope those of us who don’t see it wake up before it’s too late.
I felt lesser when seeing that part about 4 parts to the heart and modern culture only feeds one. A lesser being. Less than I could and should be.
Jess, that was great! Thanks for the share; I’d not likely have seen it otherwise. I’ve never understood how our culture has come to worship ‘growth’ so much. To me, unlimited growth is the definition of a cancer cell; it grows as much as possible, no matter the consequence to the rest of the body’s cells. And then it kills the host . . . We do need to re-imagine and re-invent ‘prosperity’, sustainability and whole-person nurturing and development, don’t we? ~ Linne