Comments on: 2012: The Year of Movements Massive and Minute in Europe http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/2012-the-year-of-movements-massive-and-minute-in-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2012-the-year-of-movements-massive-and-minute-in-europe Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Missing Point http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/2012-the-year-of-movements-massive-and-minute-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-27125 Missing Point Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:43:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154261#comment-27125 “So the world didn’t actually end, or did it? On the night that Hurricane Sandy hit New York I wrote a post titled ‘Are you listening?’ concerning the way we deal with crisis after the fact rather than addressing the root causes ahead of time. We focus on preparing for the approaching crisis so that we can ‘weather the storm,’ but we rarely take preventative measures to deal with the real challenge and its underlying causes. I don’t want to suggest there is a one size fits all response to this pattern, but I do think that we should pay closer attention to who profits from the crisis, from not taking steps to prevent it, and how our reactions may be manipulated to that end. Perhaps we need to break with the past and start addressing potential emergencies (not to be confused with the fabricated crisis after crisis coming out of our political process) from a perspective of providing for the common good rather than a function of defense. Maybe this ‘end of the world,’ with multiple crises, real and fabricated on tap, is a good time to re-examine our priorities.” More here: http://whatisthemissingpoint.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-end-of-world_1.html “So the world didn’t actually end, or did it? On the night that Hurricane Sandy hit New York I wrote a post titled ‘Are you listening?’ concerning the way we deal with crisis after the fact rather than addressing the root causes ahead of time. We focus on preparing for the approaching crisis so that we can ‘weather the storm,’ but we rarely take preventative measures to deal with the real challenge and its underlying causes. I don’t want to suggest there is a one size fits all response to this pattern, but I do think that we should pay closer attention to who profits from the crisis, from not taking steps to prevent it, and how our reactions may be manipulated to that end. Perhaps we need to break with the past and start addressing potential emergencies (not to be confused with the fabricated crisis after crisis coming out of our political process) from a perspective of providing for the common good rather than a function of defense. Maybe this ‘end of the world,’ with multiple crises, real and fabricated on tap, is a good time to re-examine our priorities.”

More here:
http://whatisthemissingpoint.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-end-of-world_1.html

]]> By: Hilary Chapman http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/2012-the-year-of-movements-massive-and-minute-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-27120 Hilary Chapman Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:41:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154261#comment-27120 There's a strong case for promoting Esperanto as a common second language for us all. Then it would be easier for a qualified unemployed Spaniard to work more easily in Germany  There’s a strong case for promoting Esperanto as a common second language for us all. Then it would be easier for a qualified unemployed Spaniard to work more easily in Germany 

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