Earthlings'ten...

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gavur yapıyor: "happiness is not to have more but to be more"

conrad schmidt adında bi kanadalı kalkıp hayalimdeki siyasi partilerden birini kurmuş: work less party.haftalık çalışma saatlerinin 4 gün ve 32 saatle sınırlandırılmasını istiyorlar. desteklemek lazım tabii, çok faideli olur. web sitelerindeki belgeselimsi vidodan çıkardıklarım:
kendisine, sevdiklerine, hobilerine ve vs.lerine daha fazla vakit ayıran insanlar daha "mutlu" olmak suretiyle daha iyi birer çalışana dönüşebilirler öncelikle (tamam, sanırım bu dediğim onların gerekçelerinden biri değil.) sonracığımaaa...
daha az çalışma -> daha az üretim -> daha az tüketim (ki hastası olduğum bi akıl yürütme)
ayrıcana: bir insanın haftalık çalışması 32 saatle sınırlanırsa ve illa daha fazla üretmek için kıçını yırtarsa sevgili işverenler, hoş bi şey olur: işsizlik azalır! herkes çalışır ama daha az.
ha bi de, psikopat gibi üretmenin ve sınırsız ekonomik "büyümenin" sadece bir hayal olduğunu söylemiş sevgili profesörlerimiz. büyü büyü büyü nereye kadar kardeşim?! sonunda "dünyalara sığmam, taşarım!" durumu olcek.
velhasıl kelam, günün birinde kanada vatandaşı olursamsa oyum bu adamadır, o zamana kadar pes etmezse.

ancaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkk, işler bu elemanların "avrupa birliğinde kaput başına co2 emisyonu kuzey amerika kıtasında kaput başına co2 emisyonunun yarısı kadar" diye ahkam kesmeleriyle bitmiyor. maalesef(!) dünyamız kuzey amerika ve avrupa kıtalarından ibaret değil. (olsa ne güzle olurdu di miiiaaaaa) bunun çin'i var, hindistan'ı var, brezilya'sı var.. manyak gibi kömür mömür yakıp sera etkisi yaratıyolar hem de. ki bu da iyi sayılır hadi. bu ülkeler de bi süre sonra yeşil enerjiye geçti diyelim, bunun daha afrika'sı var kardeşim. adamlar aç! nerden başlayacaklar? kaput başına süper-az co2 şettiren sarışın avrupalılar afrikalıların kara kaşı kara gözü için gidip oralarda yel değirmenleri ve güneş enerjisi sistemleri mi kurcaklar? (külahım oralarda bi yerlerde.. anlatınız.)
tamam, yerel hareket etmek lazım ama bi de küresel bi durum söz konusu. çin'i kim durduracak? "3.dünya ülkelerindeki" insancıkları kim "insan" haline getircek? body shop'un yaptırdığı çilek kokulu body butter'larla olmuyo bu işler. yani, iyisiniz hoşsunuz da, görmezden gelinmek hoşuma gitmiyor sayın schmidt!
yazımı bitirirken size başarılar diliyor ve "haftada 4 gün çalışırım, kalan zamanımda da parti parti partizani yaparım" tribinizin tayland'da günde bikaç cent'e çalıştırılan çocuklara yenilerini eklememesini umuyorum. bi iş yapıyosanız adam gibi yapınız. gözlerinizden öperim.

ayrıca bunu yapan bunu da yapmış: world naked bike ride
kardeş orgnaizasyon için bakınız: take back your time
ilham perim olan ntvmsnbc'nin ayrıntılı haberini de okuyunuz.

interesting observations on India no.2

In Europe new civilizations and conquering peoples eliminated or absorbed eralier inhabitants, but the successive waves of peoples who invaded India simply found places within the indigenous structure. India, unlike any other country, accepts a variety of cultural forms and considers them immutable. It is a civilization where 1,650 languages and dialects are claimed as mother tongues and where there is no national dress, cuisine, painting, dance, music, or life-styles. (p. 16-17)

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No other city has a slum as large as Bombay's Dharavi, where more than half a million people are crammed into tin shacks on four hundred swampy acres. The residents include educated, salaried office workers who cannot find affordable housing elsewhere and are so embarrassed by their surroundings they try not to let friends know they live in Dharavi. (p.21)

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At times the smell of urine is overpowering. Some owners try to protect the sides of their buildings by decorating them with religious pictures. For instance, a wall in the Bombay Central area had images of the gods Ganesh and Hanuman, the virgin Mary, Sai Baba (the founder of one of the most popular Hindu sects), the untouchable leader Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a Christian cross, a trident and drum (symbols of the god Siva), the number 786 (considered auspicious by Muslims), and the mystical Hindu symbol Om. (p.21)

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While their vehicles belch noxious exhaust into the already polluted air, the drivers vent their anger by blasting their horns. This, when combined with the high-pitched film songs blaring from store loud-speakers, produces a noise level that has been tested at between fifty-seven and ninety-five decibels, far higher than the fifty-five-decibel limit suggested by the World Health Organization. (p.22)


(Arthur Bonner, Averting the Apocalypse, 1990)

interesting observations on India no.1

"India and Pakistan were supposed to become independent simultaneously on August 14, 1947. However, astrologers discovered the 14th was inauspicious, so secular India postponed its freedom until one minute after midnight, and ever since it has observed August 15 as Independence Day."

(Arthur Bonner, Averting the Apocalypse, 1990, p. 8)


"Fuel is always the last thing bought with the family's supply of cash. Men will buy food, clothing, and maybe a radio, but they're seldom willing to spend money for fuel. It's a woman's job to go out and forage for it. If the surrounding trees are cut, the woman has to walk farther and farther and spend hours a day just to get fuel to cook a meal. A man is perfectly willing to cut and sell a tree to get cash, but a woman wants the trees nearby so she can collect twigs and leaves. Thus it's often the woman who cherishes and protects the environment, not the man."

Sunita Narain

(Arthur Bonner, Averting the Apocalypse, 1990, p. 4)

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The Paradox of Mahatma Gandhi

In India, as in the West, political theories based on charismatic leaders and institutionalized parties no longer have meaning. The belief that a particular individual can recognize and fulfill an historical process has been shown to be the starting point for political programs that, at best, have kept the poor in chains and, at worst, have led to violence and totalitarianism.
While social movement actors in the West quote the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi and regard his nonviolent principles as meaningful for the nuclear age, Indian activists do not look to him for moral inspiration. The West sees Gandhi in terms of his abstract teachings, while modern Indians who are determined to change society see him in terms of his life.
He conceived nonviolent noncooperation as a process for breaking the material and metaphysical chains of slavery, but he tied himself so closely to the interests of the ruling castes that he could not possibly put his beliefs into practice. As he confessed shortly before his death, the nonviolence practiced in India was mere pacifism willing to coexist with the traditonal oppressive power structure.
It was through the instrumentality of Gandhi that power was transferred in India in what Antonio Gramsci called a "passive revolution." By this he meant a process presided over by established elites who use what are propagandized as revolutionary changes to maintain and consolidate a supremacy based on narrow consensus that ignores most of the population except as cheering crowds in the background.

(Arthur Bonner, Averting the Apocalypse, 1990, p. 4-5)

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