Yes Rachel. Spot on. You describe Dharma in action. We must be resolute to apply the approach of balanced and caring response to all situations, without losing our ethical compass along the way.
It’s interesting how the left wing tends to fragment itself with a combination of two-sides-ing and ‘neutral bias’ narratives. The right doesn’t make this mistake it seems, it is much more clear and homogenous in its rhetoric, certainly in the less savoury viewpoints surrounding trump/ farage etc
The left needs to organise itself around something simpler and more concrete to daily concerns. Perhaps ‘everyone matters, your concerns are important, let’s make it work - together.’
You listed some excellent notions.
I would like to see many more articles applying them to the issues of the day rather than abstract finger pointing at the unsavoury other.
Thank you for your continued writing 🙏👏🙇🏼♂️ go well, good luck with the book process.
Good sentiments Racheal. Thinks tense here in NZ since the current November 2023 (- 2026) Coalition government here in Aotearoa-NZ.
We have a great anthropologist Dame Professor Anne Salmond, who would be if interest to Planet Critical community at this extraordinarily critical moment for Earth Community. She assisted the globally significant (especially in indigenous world) )legal personhood of the Whanganui River here under our defeated neoliberal-light Labour government. Recently in the context months of policy shit fuckery she has written and essay to ease the panic and seek consensus where with canny comms its is, with integrity, possible. She warns of the threat to our democracy by the phenomena of "pernicious polarisation". Here we have had a gutsful of the Bannon political strategy of "throw shit at the media. The New Zealand Project (for care, creativity community - see Max Harris, whod be great to platform on PC) may becoming energised: see TKP 26/50. Watch The Hoon on YouTube.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it; I can compromise with conservatives, despite disagreeing with their policies. So long as we can find a way forward to govern our society in a way that we have peace and prosperity (not built on the back of exploitation), I’m fine with that.
But you can’t do that with the current far-right politics. They lie, cheat, steal, stoke violence and hate. I don’t want them demonized, but I do want justice. I’m not going to act like it’s reasonable to declare us intolerant because we won’t tolerate intolerance.
I do recognize that most of their constituents have just been taken in by propaganda and disinformation and I think we need to deal with them in a compassionate way, but that doesn’t mean legitimatizing violence, hate, and subversion.
Hi Rachel, have you platformed Hannah Ritchie. A fellow Scot and focused thinker. Deputy editor of Our World in Data. Some thoughts on 'reasons to be cheerful'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XNQFqUwCnU
Yes Rachel. Spot on. You describe Dharma in action. We must be resolute to apply the approach of balanced and caring response to all situations, without losing our ethical compass along the way.
It’s interesting how the left wing tends to fragment itself with a combination of two-sides-ing and ‘neutral bias’ narratives. The right doesn’t make this mistake it seems, it is much more clear and homogenous in its rhetoric, certainly in the less savoury viewpoints surrounding trump/ farage etc
The left needs to organise itself around something simpler and more concrete to daily concerns. Perhaps ‘everyone matters, your concerns are important, let’s make it work - together.’
You listed some excellent notions.
I would like to see many more articles applying them to the issues of the day rather than abstract finger pointing at the unsavoury other.
Thank you for your continued writing 🙏👏🙇🏼♂️ go well, good luck with the book process.
Good sentiments Racheal. Thinks tense here in NZ since the current November 2023 (- 2026) Coalition government here in Aotearoa-NZ.
We have a great anthropologist Dame Professor Anne Salmond, who would be if interest to Planet Critical community at this extraordinarily critical moment for Earth Community. She assisted the globally significant (especially in indigenous world) )legal personhood of the Whanganui River here under our defeated neoliberal-light Labour government. Recently in the context months of policy shit fuckery she has written and essay to ease the panic and seek consensus where with canny comms its is, with integrity, possible. She warns of the threat to our democracy by the phenomena of "pernicious polarisation". Here we have had a gutsful of the Bannon political strategy of "throw shit at the media. The New Zealand Project (for care, creativity community - see Max Harris, whod be great to platform on PC) may becoming energised: see TKP 26/50. Watch The Hoon on YouTube.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it; I can compromise with conservatives, despite disagreeing with their policies. So long as we can find a way forward to govern our society in a way that we have peace and prosperity (not built on the back of exploitation), I’m fine with that.
But you can’t do that with the current far-right politics. They lie, cheat, steal, stoke violence and hate. I don’t want them demonized, but I do want justice. I’m not going to act like it’s reasonable to declare us intolerant because we won’t tolerate intolerance.
I do recognize that most of their constituents have just been taken in by propaganda and disinformation and I think we need to deal with them in a compassionate way, but that doesn’t mean legitimatizing violence, hate, and subversion.
Hi Rachel, have you platformed Hannah Ritchie. A fellow Scot and focused thinker. Deputy editor of Our World in Data. Some thoughts on 'reasons to be cheerful'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XNQFqUwCnU