This is the opening invocation' I did for the Personal Democracy Forum
last week, and a preview of some of the concepts coming in my next
book, Corporatized. The talk looks and feels a little freeform to me;
I'm developing the chain of logic as I go along. But I'm so immersed in
this line of thought right now that I think it does make sense.
Still, as an example of what I look like when I'm teaching, check it out.
Here's the mp3 audio file of the same talk. Opening Invocation, Personal Democracy Forum, mp3 New York, June 24, 2008.
you dont go deep enough
I hear what you say, but for me–me personally–you don't go anywhere DEEP enough.
Also you assume that literacy is some great revolutionary event. I think the opposite. I see it as alienating us from Nature.
Read The Spell of the Sensuous? It spells it out indepth there.
You talk about the political system, as though it can be put right? Sorry if I misheard you.
Thing is, Douglas, when you really leave the collective sheep and start exploring whats what is when you find the real HORROR of the political process and what is BEHIND it–the secret government. And all of this horror is civilization that is destroying the Web of Life.
You don't mention any of this, so I am sorry, what you say, although spoken passionately, seems superficial to me.
Though I do agree with you that itemizing people into pseudo individuality/brands is a divide and rule strategy.
But you fail to notice that that strategy also began right at the beginnings of the patriarchy.
What is the writ down 'holy scriptures' if not the deeper division between 'you'–a 'guilty self', created by the propaganda of war god creators–and your sensual being which becomes denigrated?