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@ica-associates.ca> To: "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:19 AM Subject: [Dialogue] What is the right question these days?
I am wondering what are the pivotal moral issues of our moment?
I think there are likely to be several. Of course there are many, many but there are probably some major ones.
To reduce it to a single one makes it too abstract and denies the obvious complexity.
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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