What this world may collectively need to brutally endure in order to survive the long-term from ourselves is a critical common cause. But what could that be other than a shared global-scale threat?
Humanity would need to unite and defend against it — it being an even greater nemesis than our own formidably divisive politics and perceptions of differences, especially those involving race.
During this much-needed human allegiance, we’d be forced to work closely side-by-side together and witness just how humanly similar we are to each other in every significant way.
... Until maybe some five or more decades later, when all traces of the nightmarish threat are gone. Then we'll inevitably revert to those same politics to which we humans seem so collectively, hopelessly prone — including those of scale: the intercontinental, international, national, provincial or state, regional and municipal. And downwards we slide again.
It's a reasonable bet that if the world’s population was somehow reduced to just a few city blocks of seemingly similar residents, there’d eventually be some form of notable politics-of-scale inter-neighborhood hostilities.
Still, we can resist. To quote the late sociologist Stanley Milgram [of Obedience Experiments fame/infamy] in regards to notably flawed human nature: “It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.” (The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India)
Not sure what is going on here, but Munira Mirza was, like that awful Fox woman, a leading member of the Rev Comm Party (remember them?). They (including her) only disbanded as they lost a libel case against ITN - as they refused (via their magazine Living Marxism to believe the genocide against Bosnian Muslims. They were taken to court and lost - so the RCP disbanded (all four of them) and Munira, like Fox, became a libertarian!
Well, despite this history it has been onwards and upwards for both - for Munira, she went as a BJ adviser until she resigned over the Jimmy Saville allegations re: Sir KS (so showing some integrity she had failed to show at any time before!).
She established the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, but she has made it clear she doubts institutional racism exists (her views on the Windrush scandal are shocking - not race, just the way the immigration system works), so the 'Commission' was never going to doa good report. And lo...
Just last year, the NS itself called her 'a liberal contrarian whose views have been widely condemned.' And yet, here she is... I am writing to NS about why you are offering her a platform - using my and others subscriptions to pay for it - Not acceptable!
What this world may collectively need to brutally endure in order to survive the long-term from ourselves is a critical common cause. But what could that be other than a shared global-scale threat?
Humanity would need to unite and defend against it — it being an even greater nemesis than our own formidably divisive politics and perceptions of differences, especially those involving race.
During this much-needed human allegiance, we’d be forced to work closely side-by-side together and witness just how humanly similar we are to each other in every significant way.
... Until maybe some five or more decades later, when all traces of the nightmarish threat are gone. Then we'll inevitably revert to those same politics to which we humans seem so collectively, hopelessly prone — including those of scale: the intercontinental, international, national, provincial or state, regional and municipal. And downwards we slide again.
It's a reasonable bet that if the world’s population was somehow reduced to just a few city blocks of seemingly similar residents, there’d eventually be some form of notable politics-of-scale inter-neighborhood hostilities.
Still, we can resist. To quote the late sociologist Stanley Milgram [of Obedience Experiments fame/infamy] in regards to notably flawed human nature: “It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.” (The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India)
Not sure what is going on here, but Munira Mirza was, like that awful Fox woman, a leading member of the Rev Comm Party (remember them?). They (including her) only disbanded as they lost a libel case against ITN - as they refused (via their magazine Living Marxism to believe the genocide against Bosnian Muslims. They were taken to court and lost - so the RCP disbanded (all four of them) and Munira, like Fox, became a libertarian!
Well, despite this history it has been onwards and upwards for both - for Munira, she went as a BJ adviser until she resigned over the Jimmy Saville allegations re: Sir KS (so showing some integrity she had failed to show at any time before!).
She established the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, but she has made it clear she doubts institutional racism exists (her views on the Windrush scandal are shocking - not race, just the way the immigration system works), so the 'Commission' was never going to doa good report. And lo...
Just last year, the NS itself called her 'a liberal contrarian whose views have been widely condemned.' And yet, here she is... I am writing to NS about why you are offering her a platform - using my and others subscriptions to pay for it - Not acceptable!
Matthew Waters