[Springboard] Critical Contradictions

[KarenBueno at aol.com]

Your statement makes sense to me, Bill Bailey.  We watched most of "10.5" on 
tv last night (Sunday, 11-11), a story about a massive earthquake that 
reformed the coastline of California.  One of the narrative comments reflected on the 
fragility of humankind in the face of such disaster.  I don't remember ever 
hearing a statement like that on popular tv, where humanity was assumed to be 
less important, or at least less powerful, than the earth.  Maybe some of the 
narrative of Planet Earth pointed in that same direction.
 
Karen Bueno
 
In a message dated 11/12/2007 9:59:14 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
bailey03132 at charter.net writes:

Perhaps, to honor our insight that Symbol is key we could state the central 
contradiction as: 
Our economic, cultural, and political stories and structure promote, enhance, 
and reward a human centered worldview with an anthropomorphic God figure that 
promotes and rewards economic, cultural, and political imperialism rather 
than structures and spiritualities that support an earth based community. Until 
there is a reformulation of the symbol, education and style systems from its 
human-centered-worldview to an earth based worldview there will be no lasting 
and authentic change.   
(Perhaps something like a universal 5th city model based on reformulating The 
Political, Economic, Cultural (Education-Symbol-Style) structures and stories 
that will change our human-based into earth based worldview) 
As Thomas Berry so eloquently puts it, “The historical mission of our time is 
to reinvent the human-at the species level, with critical reflection, within 
the community of life systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of 
story and shared dreams.” 
 
Bill Bailey






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