[lit-ideas] Re: Social Darwinism or Darwinian Socialism? (answers)
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:49:57 EST
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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