Tribe.net. Local Connections Spidey http://aikidoactivism.tribe.net/thread/98d1a493-82b9-4bb5-9b97-6b5b3b532468#4e93be6e-f5d2-4d73-bd44-46b4ea9333b8 2005-01-11T21:23:40Z 2005-01-11T21:23:40Z

http://aikidoactivism.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/AikidoEvolutionviaAikidoActivism Enviro-Socio-Economics All world problems today are traceable to singular focus on financial profit to the exclusion of stewardship A growth-based organism/species always shifts to fruition-based (cyclical/sustainable) behaviors, or kills itself by killing its environment … as a cancer Consumption-based growth is the meme of singular focus on financial profit underlying all of capitalism Hence, globalization of capitalism is globalization of consumption-based growth is a cancer on our planet There are three things to do about this… What to Do Understand where we are and why/how we got here Understand our alternatives at this point and the associated consequences Choose the best alternative Vision of past and current Humans always seek/have sought opportunity and reason Human choosing leads to groupings and leaders Leaders can either be leaders of current, or of new, tradition The first oppressive tradition was based in physical power Capitalist leaders evolved to economic instead of physical oppression … economic power maximized physical potential while also offering restraints on the application of physical power This evolution substantially replaced physical warring with economic warring … based on the competitive meme of consumption-based growth Vision of future Aikido – the art of peace – is also the art of fruition, or sustainable “growth”, which demands that consumption-based growth conform to cyclicity (net zero physical growth, which to achieve requires net positive growth in self-awareness and coherent intention). Unrestrained leadership power (including consumption-based growth oriented leadership power) can only be subverted by Aikido leadership Adolescent capitalism subverted feudalism by presenting a more powerful model that restrained the regressive powers of feudalism Aikido capitalism must today be practiced to subvert adolescent capitalism by presenting the more powerful model of restraining the regressive powers of capitalism … or we die (most and perhaps all) by killing our environment Aikido Evolution Life is the diffusion of (coherent) inspired choosing More powerful models are more powerful life models, and so must diffuse more inspired choosing Aikido leadership is always choosing less inspired choosing – but only to realize an objective of more inspired choosing – playing the game of current tradition and winning it in order to consciously (and coherently) evolve tradition Subversive evolutionary change-makers are Aikido Activists Physical-to-Economic Aikido Activism evolved feudalism (physical winning) to adolescent capitalism (economic winning) Economic-to-Reasoned Aikido Activism is need to evolve adolescent capitalism to sustainable competition (reasoned winning) Economic-to-Reasoned Aikido Activism A work in progress viewable at http://aikidoactivism.xwiki.com/

Spidey 2005-01-11T21:23:40Z