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[Edu Braat]

We are also (part of) the system.
But yes, I agree.

Edu

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Op 19 jul 2013 om 20:31 heeft Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk> het  
volgende geschreven:\

> That helplessness that you feel Patrick, is not a personal problem.  
> It is built into the system. You have been taught, ever since you  
> were a child, that people knew better than you, your parents knew  
> better, your teacher knew better, your boss knew better, your doctor  
> knew better, the government knows better. That message suits this  
> system, disempowers you. To find your own authentic voice is not  
> easy. But that is what P2P is about. It is sharing, it is  
> collaboration with people on the same level. It is a new way of  
> relating with respect and dignity for each person, friend, stranger,  
> acknowledging we are all part of one family. Maybe what we can  
> accomplish on the global scale is very small, but the feeling we can  
> get from doing what we can is transformative, and can turn that  
> helpless feeling into positive creativity.
>
> anna
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Patrick Anderson  
> <agnucius at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the tragedy of the commons is also
> partly caused by a feeling of helplessness
> combined with the (partially true) belief
> that things are already so bad and the
> amount we each add, individually, is so
> small, that it hardly matters whether each
> of us adds to the problem or not and so
> we choose the short-term benefits over
> the long-term benefits because it seems
> (it feels as though) no matter what we do,
> the end result will be the same.
>
>
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