Friday 13 December 2019
For long sight and clear vision: Practice 20/20 in 2020 - with some recommended reading
These are bad times, indeed with right-wing popular sounding leaders worldwide occupying seats of power and business promoted as the only self-respecting game in town.That nationalisms and religious sectarians of all stripes have found willing followers is attributable to the gaps between leaders and led that have arisen following a long period of market fundamentalism that increased social division and left many adrift, hopeless, and searching for rescue. When most else is removed the weakest are often left with little that offers felt substance than national or religious identities. Look carefully at recent elections and we see that identity politics is working, as social solidarity support is weaknened. Parallels with the rise of fascism in the 1930's are, sadly, accurate.
Long sight, both rear view and forward reveals therfore that to avoid more catastrophe as our world diversifies we must live together in peace and as much harmony as we can muster. It will help if enterprise, as well as the state, is committed to some core social purposes other than evading visible legal violations, say the kind that TorontotheBetter celebrates in the enterprises listed in our online directory, the first of its kind when we started it at the beginning of our now still teen-aged century.
Our proposed new charter for enterprise will contribute to this better world goal and, with the help of users as well as producers, our goals can become reality as people and organizations work for the same end: a better world for all. Such a charter represents a kind of socialism from the bottom up.Though there must be a degree of voluntarism the state must use carrots and sticks to encourage/discourage policy adoption. Thus, long sight can foresee the day when social purpose (better, not just good) will be in the DNA of all enterprise.
Long sight tells us not to sacrifice the planet for a few more kilometres or calories per hour/meal, while clear vision recognizes that humans have more in common than separates us. TorontotheBetter calls us all to use 20/20 in 2020, We don't want, or have, to, drown (asphyxiate) in carbon dioxide.
If you're the book-, not just blogpost-, reading kind we recommend two books at this time: Peter Linebaugh's 'Red Round Globe Hot Burning", about the importance of commons (plural), and Raghuram Rajan's "The Third Pillar." about the key role of community(-ies) to our lives. Commons and community are agents of the long sight and clear vision that allow us to survive when bullies aggress and the fearful retreat. Brexit and "make us great again-ism" are today's prime examples in the west. Remember: we can all be great if we conserve and cooperate. TorontotheBetter's recent interview with Toronto street nurse Cathy Crowe and the memory of another Canadian hero who fought for the poor, Norman Bethune, in whose tradition Cathy rightly belongs, should encourage us all to practice 20/20 in 2020.
For the above and other new better world books at discounted prices contact postmaster@torontothebetter.net with Books in the subject line. Good prices and avoidance of corporate glutton Amazon. To us 20/20 sounds like a good plan for 2020.
Long sight, both rear view and forward reveals therfore that to avoid more catastrophe as our world diversifies we must live together in peace and as much harmony as we can muster. It will help if enterprise, as well as the state, is committed to some core social purposes other than evading visible legal violations, say the kind that TorontotheBetter celebrates in the enterprises listed in our online directory, the first of its kind when we started it at the beginning of our now still teen-aged century.
Our proposed new charter for enterprise will contribute to this better world goal and, with the help of users as well as producers, our goals can become reality as people and organizations work for the same end: a better world for all. Such a charter represents a kind of socialism from the bottom up.Though there must be a degree of voluntarism the state must use carrots and sticks to encourage/discourage policy adoption. Thus, long sight can foresee the day when social purpose (better, not just good) will be in the DNA of all enterprise.
Long sight tells us not to sacrifice the planet for a few more kilometres or calories per hour/meal, while clear vision recognizes that humans have more in common than separates us. TorontotheBetter calls us all to use 20/20 in 2020, We don't want, or have, to, drown (asphyxiate) in carbon dioxide.
If you're the book-, not just blogpost-, reading kind we recommend two books at this time: Peter Linebaugh's 'Red Round Globe Hot Burning", about the importance of commons (plural), and Raghuram Rajan's "The Third Pillar." about the key role of community(-ies) to our lives. Commons and community are agents of the long sight and clear vision that allow us to survive when bullies aggress and the fearful retreat. Brexit and "make us great again-ism" are today's prime examples in the west. Remember: we can all be great if we conserve and cooperate. TorontotheBetter's recent interview with Toronto street nurse Cathy Crowe and the memory of another Canadian hero who fought for the poor, Norman Bethune, in whose tradition Cathy rightly belongs, should encourage us all to practice 20/20 in 2020.
For the above and other new better world books at discounted prices contact postmaster@torontothebetter.net with Books in the subject line. Good prices and avoidance of corporate glutton Amazon. To us 20/20 sounds like a good plan for 2020.
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