dare to be naive August 15, 2008
Posted by deepali in environment, happiness, personal growth.trackback
Look. Our world is going to hell in a handbasket. At the rate we go, the human race is going to devolve. I don’t want us to do that – forward motion should not be followed by backwards motion. It might not be able to sustain in a straight line, but at least we can go sideways or diagonal. But backwards is unacceptable.
Steve at Brip Blap recently posted on a similar issue. Lots of bad things happen in the world. It’s hard to wrap your mind around the horror. His response is to turn off the news. Ultimately, it will save your sanity, and so it’s not a bad idea. But it won’t save the world.
I want to save the world.
I think I might be more in No Impact Man’s camp. He suggests that the time for think tanks is over. We need do tanks. We need more kooky monks trying to get everyone together in a hot tub. Because the problem isn’t that the kooky monk failed, but that there aren’t enough kooky monks.
Well, I’m a kooky monk,and I’m proud of it. I’m hoping there are more of us in the world. I’m hoping that more people will consider becoming one. I’m hoping we can save the world.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Deepali:
Luckily for the world, most people are (kooky monks!) or else, the world would have already gone to hell in a hand cart
People solve big and small problems every day with varying but definite impact. Of course, there are free riders too. But they are everywhere. No?
Shefaly – I don’t know – I think the only reason we haven’t is due to scale.
I don’t mind freeriders – as long as they’re on the right ride!
What we need is to stop focusing on answers. The internet has rendered them cheap. We need to start searching for new questions to ask.
Writer Dad – very thought-provoking? Do you have any new questions? I will confess that I’m a problem-solver, so searching for answers is what I’m comfortable with. But I’m willing to switch gears…
Backwards is indeed unacceptable. And we’re seemingly incapable of standing still. Looks like upwards and onwards it is.
But I’m still not watching the news.
@ Plonkee – I don’t know what your news is like, but if they’re like ours, I don’t really blame you.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/alisa_miller_shares_the_news_about_the_news.html
I agree, while I like what “think tanks” do, the lack of action as a result makes for incredible waste. All the research we have, all the spending by governmental organizations and NGO’s and yet we are still adding to the problem and not getting ourselves, countries and nations out of the mess they are in!