I've never seen any conversation about Japan or reference to it except what I passed along. Isn't it astonishing that mass shootings are front adn center as a subject, with such high emotions as children are dying, and we struggle to get little concessions from the gun people while no one here even knows anything about what they do in Japan. You'd think with our modern communication systems such massive ignorance wouldn't be possible, but it's still the same blindness as Indians and Spanish ships.
As someone who has actually called that burn number after getting a significant one, all I will say is, it totally worked. We have to open up our minds. There’s more out there! Wr shouldn’t get burned for believing in something bigger then us even if it’s beyond the “norm”.
I liked the story of the Native people not seeing the ships. (Some commentators think they saw them but they were too busy with their own concerns.... until the sailors landed!). That is a good analogy too- people feel too busy to deal with new ideas...... until it is too late. Thank you also for your link to your earlier article on guns in Japan. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it- and the video that it links to. Thanks, Suzanne!!
I wonder if technology is the wedge between people and unity, even when the design is to bring people together like social media the opposite seems to happen.
Just about everything is a struggle between light and dark, with the internet case in point. BUT, there hasn't been any organizing there to bring all the like-minded groups and individuals into a coalition. It seems simple to me. Get one hot stuff organization -- or two, like IONS in the US and The Scientific and Medical Network in the UK -- to hold up a flagpole for all people of goodwill to sign on and I bet we'd have millions of people operating as a force. I see it like taking to the streets but so much easier and then have a place to stay connected.
I've never seen any conversation about Japan or reference to it except what I passed along. Isn't it astonishing that mass shootings are front adn center as a subject, with such high emotions as children are dying, and we struggle to get little concessions from the gun people while no one here even knows anything about what they do in Japan. You'd think with our modern communication systems such massive ignorance wouldn't be possible, but it's still the same blindness as Indians and Spanish ships.
As someone who has actually called that burn number after getting a significant one, all I will say is, it totally worked. We have to open up our minds. There’s more out there! Wr shouldn’t get burned for believing in something bigger then us even if it’s beyond the “norm”.
Lovely adding some poetry to this!
I liked the story of the Native people not seeing the ships. (Some commentators think they saw them but they were too busy with their own concerns.... until the sailors landed!). That is a good analogy too- people feel too busy to deal with new ideas...... until it is too late. Thank you also for your link to your earlier article on guns in Japan. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it- and the video that it links to. Thanks, Suzanne!!
I wonder if technology is the wedge between people and unity, even when the design is to bring people together like social media the opposite seems to happen.
Just about everything is a struggle between light and dark, with the internet case in point. BUT, there hasn't been any organizing there to bring all the like-minded groups and individuals into a coalition. It seems simple to me. Get one hot stuff organization -- or two, like IONS in the US and The Scientific and Medical Network in the UK -- to hold up a flagpole for all people of goodwill to sign on and I bet we'd have millions of people operating as a force. I see it like taking to the streets but so much easier and then have a place to stay connected.