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Old 05-10-2007
Tethys Tethys is offline
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Re: Something Earth-Changing is Afoot Among Civil Society

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Pretend I'm the editor.

"Those in the movement are relentless and unafraid, while those who fail to see this are foolish, simplistic, and unsophisticated."

Better?
Now, Mark Twain would say that!

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Old 05-10-2007
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Re: Something Earth-Changing is Afoot Among Civil Society

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It doesn't have to be an either/or situation, very rarely does one movement completely dominate the landscape. Competing movements will push back and forth before finding an equilibrium which will hold for a longer or shorter period of time and the push and pull will begin again. It's called progress, I'm not sure why.
It’s also dialectics, I believe.

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Re: Something Earth-Changing is Afoot Among Civil Society

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Namaste,



I think the problem lies in your understanding of the term.


According to textbook definitions what you are describing is inaccurate. We are talking about a collection of people and there is no cognitive dissonance in attributing human values to it. I would put forth the hypothesis that this would be the only way to describe such activities.

In Peace,
Eglaelin
Namaste,

Thanks for posting the definition, Eglaelin. I have read other discussions along the line that Niccolo is expressing. I will try to post something on it next time for this discussion.

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