[PeDAGoG] [REDlistserve] Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence for a Ruling Class of the Indus Civilization?

Sat Jun 24 18:00:29 CEST 2023

This article gives credence to this: Vision/Remedy for Humanity

We often take for granted the air we breathe, people, children, our loved
ones, the joy of eating, the beauty of the sky, so many things that are
plentiful and that we are accustomed to, as opposed to a child where even
the smallest things can take on importance. Our lives are commercialized.

Money is a fiction, but it's real. We need it as much as we need air.
Without money, we perish.The more money one has, the more power, the more
options, the more freedom. In 2022, 2 trillion, 240 billion went to global
military spending (
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264434/trend-of-global-military-spending/).
Estimates of how much money it would take to end world hunger range from $7
billion to $265 billion per year (
https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/).

War is business. Everything is for sale, food, sex, knowledge/tech,
assassins, bombs, politicians and governments, etc. Ah, politicians and
governments, there's the rub. Everything has a price, but not everything
should be for sale. Selling people, slavery was finally made illegal is an
example. Politicians and governments are another no-no. But the reality is
that very rich people and large corporations can control governments simply
by buying off politicians. This gives them inordinate power over others.
This is the "fly in the soup", or the flaw in the system that is constantly
overlooked and accepted. This is why humanity has suffered the same
seemingly intractable problems for millenia, i.e. corruption, crime,
poverty, hunger, disease, and war. This is why it never is going to change
substantially no matter who gets elected, that voting just continues the
domination.

Now that humanity has reached the stage of ever-mounting crises, the urge
for change is everywhere. But if this key problem is not noticed, the
changes that we make will never be enough. Even though things are so
complex, sometimes like the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 was
caused by a design flaw in the spacecraft's O-rings, which are mechanical
gaskets that are designed to be seated in a groove and then compressed in
between two surfaces, creating a seal at the interface. That seal helps to
prevent liquids or gases from escaping. The morning of the 1986 space
flight was much colder than previous Challenger launches, and the primary
O-ring became cold and hard and couldn't seal properly.

This is analogous to the ease of corruption in governments today as the
major cause of the seemingly intractable and increasing dilemmas that
confronts all of humanity today.The solution is to restructure all
governments from vertical to horizontal which will remove the possibility
of corruption or the selling of the government. Sometimes it is a small
adjustment that can correct complex situations.

Horizontal governance involves citizen participation, extreme transparency,
a new constitution that all could agree upon, incorporating human rights
and dignity, along with making all human needs as easily accessible as
possible in the most equitable manner imaginable. It would also include
confederating cities, villages, and states such that all would have
autonomy within the confines of the constitution.

This would provide the infrastructure or framework for humanity to begin
living in a world based on cooperation and collaboration, rather than
competition. Hopefully, leading to making unconditional love for all life a
commonality.

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 8:45 AM 'Christian Stalberg' via Radical Ecological
Democracy <radical_ecological_democracy at googlegroups.com> wrote:

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> Christian Stalberg
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> *“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
> nothing.” – Edmund Burke*
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> *“Go to where the silence is and say something.” – Amy Goodman*
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> *"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the
> things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis*
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> *“What is it that we can do that addresses whatever the problem is, rather
> than what it is that we’re trying to get somebody else to do.” – Alice Lynd*
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> *“**It’s better to die for an idea that is going to live than to live for
> an idea that is going to die.” – Steve Biko*
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> *“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but so did the
> divine right of kings.” - Ursula K. Le Guin*
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