As we focused on Palestine and Isreal UN speeches we missed how Bhutan hit the nail on the head | |
DeathManGuy (OP) User ID: 1033851 United States 09/23/2011 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is the link to the video: [link to www.unmultimedia.org] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1440698 United Kingdom 09/23/2011 04:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's a good speech from one of the world's smallest and most remote nations: "For too long, we have ignored the truth that the causes of all these problems are interrelated and that durable remedies must be found through a rational and holistic approach. For too long, we have refused to accept that GDP focused economic models have served their us~ful purpose and that we need to switch tracks. Guided by the belief that life satisfaction is about material pursuit and accumulation, and that good economics is about limitless growth, our economic development processes have created the monster of a consumerist market economy." The Ambassador wants to redress the way we measure our progress, from a purely economic model to one based on overall satisfaction. In doing so, he thinks we cill recover something of our basic humanity. It's a nice idea but can you see the major economies doing it? Even though they're right at the brink of collapse? |
DeathManGuy (OP) User ID: 1033851 United States 09/23/2011 06:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would highly recommend reading "Our Enemy, The State" by Albert Jay Nock. He provides an interesting perspective of how the state/institutions eliminates social power. Here are some quotes: "Thus the State “turns every contingency into a resource” for accumulating power in itself, always at the expense of social power; and with this it develops a habit of acquiescence in the people. New generations appear, each temperamentally adjusted – or as I believe our American glossary now has it, “conditioned” – to new increments of State power, and they tend to take the process of continuous accumulation as quite in order." "This raises the question whether the very existence of the state, with its self-interested exercise of a monopoly on the use of force, could portend other than the continuing cycles of wars, repression, economic dislocations, and other forms of collective conflict and disorder?" "As the state commendeers authority from society to suit itself. It sets lasting expectations that the state will continue to satisfy that requirement. Creates and stimulates individualism, breaks down community." Why should I give a begger a quarter when I already paid the state on his behalf? "We know that they [nature of an institution] exist, that they affect us in various ways, but we do not ask how they came to exist, or what their original intention was, or what primary function it is that they are actually fulfilling; and when they affect us so unfavourably that we rebel against them, we contemplate substituting nothing beyond some modification or variant of the same institution" |