what is the word(s) we can use to describe people working together for a good purpose for all humanity?
i think kurt vonnegut had some useful terms..
granfalloon- people who thought they are working together to do good, but actually were not
karass- people who were doing good together, even though they might not know it.
a karass versus social capital/granfalloon?
ken
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It is interesting also how disease, plagues, religion, and civil wars often
interact positively and negatively as in Germany and other nations. Rising
middle classes can result from devastation of the lower class population
such that improvements are necessary and possible.
In Appalachia literacy rates before the Civil War were high as reading the
Bible was important to several of the different branches of Christianity.
This included males and females in a time when female literacy suffered.
The devastation of the war fought across Appalachia and northern support by
Applachian counties became a problem when control returned to different
state leadership. Appalachian counties endured decades of neglect. The land
could no longer support the number of people and family members and distant
ownership of land and economics grew.
Solidarity around the emperor was a rallying point for the Japanese. It was
used as a tool by warlords. The solidarity also allowed an end to the
conflict rather than a fight to the death across the islands. The decisions
led to quick recovery, when the emperor, religion, and solidarity of the
nation was respected. A different approach to the emperor may have resulted
in a different situation.
Then there was the ultimate value of those who traveled throughout India
and throughout the U.S. South to teach non-violent methods of resistance,
with a different outcome also.
How different violence is now portrayed on the media. Abusive violence
(police dog attacks) once drew headlines and illuminated a nation as to the
real workings of oppression. Now media presentation of violence is seized
as a weapon that rewards and unifies those who promote anarchy and their
own way, seizing upon the uneducated hopeless males who think that the are
invulnerable (gangs, women abuse, terrorists). Television shows and media
reports present the worst of our society and even teach young people how to
organize for even more creative and financially rewarding crimes. School
changes guarantee that criminals will be smarter since they can do better
for at least some period of time by not choosing school. The silent
assassinations, abuses, genocides, and financial destructions of those
preyed upon continue with minimal coverage from a few very brave
journalists while violence that seems to fit some agendas gets reported (or
is safer to report). It seems to make addressing change an overwhelming
task as compared to past times when the non-violent and assertive but not
aggressive methods used got attention and response, slow, but steady. Now
the focus is quick, violent, and dramatic and so are the tactics of those
that want immediate change.
Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
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