[Oe List ...] Our Future --- as it so happens . . .

[Ed Feldmanis]

Yes Jim. Thank you for your follow-up. It is true that that Finland,  and
for the most part the rest of Scandinavia, is very tech savvy.  Estonia is
very much in the sphere of influence of Finland. Besides singing and music,
Estonia very much prides itself as being a math and science oriented
country. At least they are proud of the people who pioneer in these areas.
So yes most people are online. Most people can suffice with a smartphone
and this gives them access to government anywhere in the world.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 12:18 AM James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Thanks, Ed; thanks, Dharma.
>
> Local government and local community, whether bioregion or neighborhood or
> even intentional communities -- there seems to be an instinctive
> realization that that is important though how??
>
> I did not know about Estonia--or maybe heard of it and forgot.  Would it
> be correct to assume they made a signficant investment in technology to do
> that?  Does most everyone there have online access??
>
> To Dharma's point, at least in the US, I feel so self-obsessed with what
> is going on here that there is little room in my consciousness to think
> seriously of all the innovations elsewhere.  Dharma, can you describe a bit
> the gap you see between "the west". And the "global south"??  And the
> places you mentioned --Russia, Israel, Ukraine, China.  There is a lot of
> talk in Herman's study group about recovering indigenous world views and
> insights re:  governance.
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make
> that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking
>
> On Jul 21, 2024, at 10:12 PM, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby <
> dvinasithamby at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Jim,
> Related to your question about what innovations, shifts or changes would
> be needed, I (probably like many of you) am aware of the growing gap in
> world view between the “West” and the “Global South” in recent years. I see
> this particularly in Western perceptions of and attitudes to specific
> nations – Russia, Israel, Ukraine and China, among them. My (?jaundiced)
> explanation is that those who run the media are eager to keep the “West” in
> a bubble that shapes how they see the world. For some reason, they are
> either unable or uninterested in doing this for those outside the West.
> Identifying these gaps and trying to figure out what causes them would
> help us get a grip on this gap that will surely affect how we as the world
> envision the future.
>
> Dharma
>
> On Monday, 22 July 2024 at 09:25:59 am GMT+8, James Wiegel via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>
> Some of you may remember Herman Greene.  I am involved in a "study group"
> with him and several dozen others looking into what kind of governance we
> need moving forward in this century with all that it holds.
>
> Just wondering what thoughts any of you might have about what
> improvements, innovations, shifts or changes in governance, politics,
> morals, leadership that might produce better outcomes for all of us?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make
> that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking
>
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