Question everything

I'd like to see the human race change the way we try to control everything. I read an article today about how the US federal government is expanding the scope of its abstinence programs to people up to age 29. I mean it is funny but at the same time somewhat horrifying. 

I got a very longwinded email yesterday morning peppered with an ask to buy a new book called World Changing. The appeal started with, "Our book, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, comes out on November 1. It offers 600 pages of insight into successful ways to build sustainability and create social change. It is intended to be, quite literally, a manual for learning to change the world."

Ah! Hope! Someone has compiled some models for successful, sustainable communities, and provided a step-by-step offering for those who feel called to lead the way. But then I kept reading...

Hi all,

I thought I'd post about a free event Vancity is hosting about Human Rights on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 7:30pm at the Italian Cultural Centre.

As author of more than 20 books, dynamic presenter Michael Parenti speaks on how culture is not always a neutral phenomenon and is often an instrument of social control and contested power. How do human rights figure in cultural struggles? And why should we think of human rights as a global phenomenon? Mr. Parenti will also speak on how globalization is threatening local sources of production and self-sufficiency, and how we should expand the concept of human rights to include environmental sustainability.

Read the full article here.

I have often felt these things when exposed to the anti war movement. A thought provoking article.