Be the revolution – Harold Jarche

Last Friday of each month, I organized some of the observations and ideas shared on social networks. I call it Friday finds.

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your mind, or it is nowhere.” —Heula K. Le Guin, the dispossessed: an ambiguous utopia, via @Susan kaye quinn

“For those who can hear me, I say not to despair. The misery which is now for us is only the passage of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the path of human progress. The hatred of men will pass, and the dictators will die, and the power they have taken from the people will return to the people. And as long as men die, freedom will never be per.” —Charlie Chaplin The final speech of the great dictator1940

Revue de George Orwell in 1940 by Mein Kampf

Nevertheless, simply on the internal evidence of Mein Kampf, it is difficult to believe that a real change took place in Hitler's objectives and opinions. When we compare his words about a year ago with those made fifteen years earlier, something that strikes a rigidity of his mind, the way in which his vision of the world does not develop. It is the fixed vision of a monomaniac and little likely to be very affected by the temporary maneuvers of the policy of power.

A local example of what Facebook cost us by @Chriscorrigan

So it seems easy for me to leave (Facebook). But as I posted my intention to do, friends shared their concern with me that if they leave Facebook, where will they get their local news and will remain connected to what is happening in the community?

And this here is the cost that we all buy the convenience of Facebook to the detriment of the hard work of the community. What is happening on Facebook is not a community. It is a version of empty calories of deliberation and belonging. It gives the illusion of connection and conversation while acting simultaneously in the same way as large -area stores in small cities: crushing what is local thanks to convenience and lower prices. The community has the cost. »»

Do you think your efforts to help the climate don't matter? African philosophers do not agree via @dyckron

The complementarity was used by African philosophers like Jonathan Chimakonam, Aïda Terblanché-Greeff, Diana-Abasi Ibanga and Kevin Gary Behrens to develop environmental philosophies based on shared relations. According to these philosophers, a vision of the world based on complementarity does not decrease humans. On the contrary, it sketches a relationship of equals defined by the mutual participation of all.

This thought is opposed to the hierarchy. No individual can claim to have more value than another. Everything that exists serves as a significant part of the environment and also counts, whether alone or collectively. Complementarity maintains that relationships that unite individual things can expand to prove the value of each contribution, whatever its size. »»

The McGill Office for Science and Society (OSS)

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