[Dialogue] What is the right question these days?

[Bill Parker]

Wayne and all,

I think you are on to something. It may be that we need to look first at 
what are the warning signs of the destruction and endangerment of the entire 
human community. Then ask, what is the underlying question to be addressed 
and how it can be addressed.

For example, we have been in an environmental crisis for decades now, we 
have watched our democracy get wrestled away from the people, we have 
witnessede the strangledhold of the financial institution on the total 
society, the rapidly expanding levels of poverty threathening nations 
stabilities, we have watched corporations demonstrate time and again their 
incompetence and waste of resources, we are bombarded with all kinds of 
religious solutions, we find racism as vigorous as ever, women as deprived 
as ever, war as ineffective as ever, and our young people as entrapped by 
the yoke of individual consumerism as ever.

These are not new! These represent the inevitable collapse of civilization 
as we have known, yet it is as if all declarations of the reality of this 
situation are trivialized, watered down, muted as if it has not been pointed 
out. What we have been doing does not seem to be effective in making the 
truth clear. So, perhaps the question is: Why are people not being awakened 
to the clear, obvious truth of our crisis? Secondly, what methods must we 
develop or employ to radically reveal this all emcompassing truth?

Just thinking......

Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Nelson" <wnelson at ica-associates.ca>
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:19 AM
Subject: [Dialogue] What is the right question these days?


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> I am wondering what are the pivotal moral issues of our moment?
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> I think there are likely to be several. Of course there are many, many but 
> there are probably some major ones.
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> To reduce it to a single one makes it too abstract and denies the obvious 
> complexity.
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> We all have to name 'the moral issue of our time.'  There's not likely to 
> be one for everyone. It's a job we all have to do.
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