[lit-ideas] Re: Social Darwinism or Darwinian Socialism? (answers)

 
In a message dated 12/30/2005 4:52:52 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:

I always  wondered what a conversation between Don Quixote & Camu would be  
like....


Dear Julie,
HOW can you (and some others) say so much in so few of words!  
 
Hmpf, though!  Camus is so much more a romantic figure than Don  Quixote!
 
(Though at an impressionable age, Irene/Andy obviously didn't have a parent  
who, during a melodramatic stage in life as a typical teen who bemoans the 
state  of the world, tossed Camus across the room at her and asked her to read  
it.  Then asked [after she'd read it], if that was REALLY the sort of world  
that she wanted to live in...  and, um...the answer was ;no' so I got the  talk 
about social responsibility...<g>  I do think Irene/Andy missed  that phase of 
growing up [to do her psycho-analyzing about bad parenting thing]  or didn't 
have that sort of parent who paid attention to that phase of teenage  angst 
and so she 'got stuck in it' and is only now coming out of it! But she  is--did 
you see her post??  I'm so excited and am waiting to hear which  community 
organization in her area that she is going to volunteer with and  transmute 
some 
of that negative energy into positive for the corner of the world  that she 
lives in!)
 
Best,
Marlena
seeing changes in little things by little people all the time...and  thinking 
of one of the problem solving techniques whereby one makes a list of  the 
problems and then scales them in terms of 1-5 with 5 being  the 'biggest' 
problems which cause stress...and then codes them to match  the ease of fixing 
them 
from 1-5 with 5 being the hardest   Sometimes  if you take care of a bunch of 
level 1s and 2s which are easily fixed...the  stress will go down with even 
less energy (or big people lighting big candles)  and so then all that is left 
to 
fix are the big problems.  Thus, taking  care of what you CAN do [ie in your 
own little corner of the world] actually  helps with that whole 
problem-solving process even on a global  scale...

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