a personal plea

I call out to those who feel the same way as I to come forward and begin our sharing of new and old ideas alike. But I make a plea we do so from a spirit of loving construction not hateful dismantlement. Throughout history, the building of one idea has too often been falsely protected by mechanisms of attack toward all other ideas. I contend this has been so for the false democrats and neoliberals. A failed and so pretend democracy and also its inheritor the marketplace have both become monocultural, and intellectually flacid. So may we not please make the same mistake. May we welcome our diversity, our differences of oppinion, our chaos even. And may we be children in this, and simply play our way through new and old ideas. I plea we be much less the cynical political theorists than the innocent and open-minded fools, and so simply ask ourselves from the deepest centre of our present ignorance -
WHAT IF???

Are you a part of the 50 percent?
Do you concede the impotence of a democracy engaging only half its population? Do you think your vote makes little or no difference to the huge and global changes presently necessary? But are you frustrated by your lack of political involvement? Do you acknowledge the political supremacy of the globalised marketplace? Do you acknowledge the impending and already present catastrophes of environmental degradation, but do you also submit the supreme marketplace cannot solve them? If you answer yes to these questions, then yes too, you too are a part of the rational and idealistic 50percent, and must without ado join us in our vigorous pursuit of alternative ideas -

May we welcome all ideas, and even the ideas of our enemies. May we not come from left, right, black, red, this faction or that, but from all of them, and from a simple and heartfelt yen for different ways of living. If our child's untainted logic leads us, as it does, to dislike dead-democracy and the marketplace, then may we still please follow the way of peace as we grow. May we call our enemies our better friends to teach us, and rather condemn their actions than their persons. May we please, when choosing to hate the sin, still love the sinner.