October 24, 2006
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(via Bob Harris, whose new book I’ve been meaning to get)
Brought to you by the fine folks at the Foundation for Global Community. I like a think tank with ‘global community’ in the name. Mostly because it yields a sense of nostalgia for the moments of sanity before 2000. Then again, the FGC uses the Enneagram as a model for interconnectedness. Sigh.
A while back I started writing a mini-manifesto, which was actually just a list of declarative sentences about stuff. It was to be the foundational document of an imaginary think tank I was going to pretend to form called Greentank. Excerpt:
Greentank believes the tweak is better than the torque, and the torque is preferable to the protracted, time-wasting battle.
Greentank believes that a protracted battle over something that is right can be a liberating experience for all involved.
Greentank believes that a political battle is really a spiritual experience disguised as a quest for the destruction of the enemy, which will eventually make the concepts of ‘destruction’ and ‘enemy’ obsolete. Greentank can’t help it if our opponents choose not to dance with us, and would rather fight the flow, though we try and help them see otherwise.
Greentank believes that the flow of the dance, and the appropriateness of each step, is just as important as the political end result, if not more so.
Greentank beleives that each step *is* the political outcome. What people do is politics. How people respond to what is going on around them is politics. How people seek to influence and/or control the social forces around them is politics.
Greentank believes that two forces opposing each other equally is a shitty way to create stability, since one force could be right while the other is wrong. Greentank says that the logical fallacy of the middle ground is an important point of meditation when it comes to partisanship.
Greentank believes it will be wrong from time to time, and that this is unavoidable, and that all political opponents of greentank will also be unavoidably wrong from time to time, and that neither of these things is really all that big a deal, from the perspective of all the things that have gone wrong throughout human history.
Greentank believes that you’re a beautiful expression of spiritual motion through the material world, and that you’ll get better at it as we get better at it.
Comments (1)
that wombat actually is wise. i would vote for the wombat rather than rick santorum, who’s slogan is:
Santorum is Good.
for senate.
weak.