this outset of normality
It has been a joyful year by degree. For one, I have learned to be modest when it comes to predicting the future. Still, trends are observable that may project into the future: agendas are operating or envisioned which command certain bases of political support. Some of these are contrasting: incubating within them are very different futures of ourselves.
I believe there is a major scenario developing and I’ll outline it here. Predicting the future is not an exact science: my projections are frankly based on experience, observation, understanding of the major agendas now on the ground, and an intuition about the relationships between people. Here, my readers are offered a perspective -- a projection inside of a movement -- a perspective from the heart and gut, so to speak.
Canadians from all backgrounds realize that a profound injustices have been beset since neo-colonization of the original inhabitants. We all know that: it is a primary reason why many Canadians are sympathetic. But when they look at the conditions we’re in, they see it through an inherited framework. Perspective conditions oriented to primary reference points for concepts of normality and abnormality.
My scenario assumes that the mind set for considerations of all issues will continue. Canadians will continue to see the current problems through the lens of another. This will continue to be the half filled glasses we use to survey and think about these issues, problems, and solutions. This is the foundation of the current operating agendas in government and many movements.
I believe in distorted perception. I believe we’re all sheep following a gateway to more confusion, and not on the verge for a starting point to clarity. There’s apartheid and racism still existent today, founded in discredited ideas of European superiority, domination and manifest destiny. It was and remains a means to keep us tightly under wraps of ulterior motives. All of the prickly detail of the regulations, policies, administrative discretion, rules, regulations, and by-laws set in motion predicate the same domineering philosophy. All of this is compounded by an often overbearing and sometimes self-serving bureaucracy that is itself a major constituent of th system the legislation created, with its own bureaucratic power, prestige, jobs, pecking order and privilege to preserve.
I believe none of this is normal. I believe we will fail to make real progress at modernizing and advancing this critical condition of Canada and on the rest of our planet. The only solution, if only a dream; to unite societies until we alter our frame of reference for normality.
Normality - another word for justifying the status quo in our society, for explaining why power is allocated as it is. The structure of our society also incentivizes some leaders to justify the staus quo - to explain these acts of ours as "normal". I believe these "leaders", and the system which brings them into positions of what I believe is minor power (under the corporation), contribute to the marginalization of most people. They formulate ill-conceived notions of nationhood; they defend absurd concepts of democracy (rather demo’crazy) and government. Some of these are wrapped in cries of resentment and a challenge to the power establishment. These naturally appeal to the youth groups; anti-establishments if you will to challenge yet fall easily. We are young but disempowered ears. The thought that the power establishment is unfair - that it should be resented - contains a veneer of truth. Joining to this thought a call to transfer authority to control, centres of power adds a second layer of appeal, however thin the conception.
We cannot allow ourselves to miss the selfish spirit beneath the veneer of each and every one of us: the meanness, the stinginess, the careless, autocratic quest for power. For more. Autocratic - for it seeks power on the backs of the most excluded. We’re unrepresented. We’re cut off without a base of power. Without enough effective forum to negotiate or manage our rights. Cut adrift, we will soon enough and no longer reserve what we enjoy little of and value; as our human rights, as our freedom.
I believe there is a major scenario developing and I’ll outline it here. Predicting the future is not an exact science: my projections are frankly based on experience, observation, understanding of the major agendas now on the ground, and an intuition about the relationships between people. Here, my readers are offered a perspective -- a projection inside of a movement -- a perspective from the heart and gut, so to speak.
Canadians from all backgrounds realize that a profound injustices have been beset since neo-colonization of the original inhabitants. We all know that: it is a primary reason why many Canadians are sympathetic. But when they look at the conditions we’re in, they see it through an inherited framework. Perspective conditions oriented to primary reference points for concepts of normality and abnormality.
My scenario assumes that the mind set for considerations of all issues will continue. Canadians will continue to see the current problems through the lens of another. This will continue to be the half filled glasses we use to survey and think about these issues, problems, and solutions. This is the foundation of the current operating agendas in government and many movements.
I believe in distorted perception. I believe we’re all sheep following a gateway to more confusion, and not on the verge for a starting point to clarity. There’s apartheid and racism still existent today, founded in discredited ideas of European superiority, domination and manifest destiny. It was and remains a means to keep us tightly under wraps of ulterior motives. All of the prickly detail of the regulations, policies, administrative discretion, rules, regulations, and by-laws set in motion predicate the same domineering philosophy. All of this is compounded by an often overbearing and sometimes self-serving bureaucracy that is itself a major constituent of th system the legislation created, with its own bureaucratic power, prestige, jobs, pecking order and privilege to preserve.
I believe none of this is normal. I believe we will fail to make real progress at modernizing and advancing this critical condition of Canada and on the rest of our planet. The only solution, if only a dream; to unite societies until we alter our frame of reference for normality.
Normality - another word for justifying the status quo in our society, for explaining why power is allocated as it is. The structure of our society also incentivizes some leaders to justify the staus quo - to explain these acts of ours as "normal". I believe these "leaders", and the system which brings them into positions of what I believe is minor power (under the corporation), contribute to the marginalization of most people. They formulate ill-conceived notions of nationhood; they defend absurd concepts of democracy (rather demo’crazy) and government. Some of these are wrapped in cries of resentment and a challenge to the power establishment. These naturally appeal to the youth groups; anti-establishments if you will to challenge yet fall easily. We are young but disempowered ears. The thought that the power establishment is unfair - that it should be resented - contains a veneer of truth. Joining to this thought a call to transfer authority to control, centres of power adds a second layer of appeal, however thin the conception.
We cannot allow ourselves to miss the selfish spirit beneath the veneer of each and every one of us: the meanness, the stinginess, the careless, autocratic quest for power. For more. Autocratic - for it seeks power on the backs of the most excluded. We’re unrepresented. We’re cut off without a base of power. Without enough effective forum to negotiate or manage our rights. Cut adrift, we will soon enough and no longer reserve what we enjoy little of and value; as our human rights, as our freedom.
posted by daneatkinson at 22.12.05
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