Interaction Institute for Social Change Blog The structural vs. transformational debate is alive and well. I’m glad that Curtis and Cynthia have been dipping back into it over the last few weeks. It is good to start at the end: the answer is a both/and, it’s not a good idea to get stuck in binaries. The print pictured above captures it for me. Take that in for a second. Thirty years in jail for daring to stand up for freedom. The print’s beauty is undeniable. How is this perspective possible? There was something in Mandela’s mind, something in his soul, that could not be subjugated. Nelson Mandela is the icon that destroys the binary. I agree with Curtis and Glanzberg that “The pattern most in need of shifting is not out there in the world, but in our minds.” But there is something else happening here. We have an interior condition. Bringing our care and attention to what is inside.
Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - FTT INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT Voices for Creative Nonviolence Michael Parenti Blog Polyamory for the Practical This morning I wake up next to The Prince. This means I am waking up too early because of that unspeakable invention, the alarm clock. I open a bleary eye to see that he is getting ready for work, but don't really register anything coherent. The whole family was up late the night before Ï no, not what you think. We were eating ice cream and heckling some TV show. I forget what. The Prince, being the first up most weekdays, feeds the children some breakfast and turns on the electronic babysitter, calling out that he is leaving the house and that somebody better get his lazy butt up to keep an eye on the kids. I do not in fact get up, but laze in bed keeping an ear out for the little monsters. I snatch the toy out of the hands of a child and say, without quite snarling, "If you can't play nicely with it, neither of you can have it." I put the toy on a high shelf, ignore shrieks and go off to make my coffee. The children beg me to sit down with them and watch The Wild Thornberrys .
Public Intelligence Blog Triangle Theory of Love: Poly Style On the evening that we would be studying the Triangle Theory of Love in my Development Psychology class, I got pretty excited. I thought "Wow, are we actually going to learn that most people get attracted to multiple people and this forms triangles of love??". I really must learn to leave my sicko poly mind out of the classroom, y'know? No, what we actually were introduced to was a theory by Robert Sternberg, in which he sees three components of what we refer to as 'loving relationships'. These three components make up a triangle of interactions. Intimacy: The specialness of the relationship that promotes closeness, bondedness and connectedness. And that there are different combinations of these three components that makes up different kinds of loving relationships. Infatuation is defined as a superficial type of love that is usually one-sided. Liking is defined as a type of typical friendship (not a best friendship, however). (Above information from Braun, J. All the boxes checked?
How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings In 1998, a high school junior named Eric Harris from Colorado wanted to put on a performance, something for the world to remember him by. A little more than a year later, Eric and his best friend Dylan Klebold would place bombs all over their school — bombs large enough to collapse large chunks of the building and to kill the majority of the 2,000 students inside — and then wait outside with semi-automatic weapons to gun down any survivors before ending their own lives. “It’ll be like the LA riots, the Oklahoma bombing, WWII, Vietnam, Duke and Doom all mixed together,” Eric wrote in his journal. Eric was a psychopath, but he was also smart. Despite what media outlets would later claim, Eric Harris was not the victim of bullying any more than other students, he was not a goth or a member of the “Trench Coat Mafia.” But Eric also understood people. By 1999, there had already been a series of school shootings across the United States. Reality Check There are a few reasons for this:
The 2010 Internet Censorship Report infographic From Antonio Lupetti at WoorkUp.com, The 2010 Internet Censorship Report looks at how many people in the world population are effected by government censorship. It is one of the tools used by governments to filter out unwanted information and to prevent the spread through the World Wide Web. It is a phenomenon of staggering proportions that affects over 25% of the global population. My suggestion for improvement is that I think the the white circles representing the countries should be sized in accordance the population numbers. Thanks to Antonio for sending in the link. I Don't Know — ...what time it is. (May 27, 2014)