5/17/15 note: I am posting this now over a year later because I want to refer to it in a new message that I'm just writing.
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Subject: so fascinating to observe "Profiting from Climate Change"
I keep thinking all's been said that there is to say and keep
finding out I was mistaken. This one is about some of those who are
making big profits or are planning to make big profits from global
warming.
More than once over a period of five years I have mentioned the game
"Ain't it Awful." The game was named and described by Dr. Eric
Berne in his 1964 classic, Games People Play. An excellent
piece on the subject of that game and the accompanying damage to the
human spirit by the playing of it, aside from it's being a waste of
time, is this
church sermon by Rev. Sam Trumbore May 28th, 1995. 1. One
thing Rev. Trumbore said is, "What matters tremendously now is not
that we have the answers, because we don't, but rather that we be
part of the answer by being willing to engage with the problems of
today as much as possible, given each of our limits and resources."
2. Then he described the
"Ain't it Awful" game--using my words now--as being about people having conversations among
each other in a particular
way, a way that tends to create a "we/they separation" in the course of complaining, like
one member saying something along the lines of, "Oh how
terrible is that other [person or group], not
present." Then the other players of the group playing the game chime in "Oh yes, ain't
it awful," or something like that agreeing that
another person or group is just horrible,
or maybe that the whole world is horrible. Needless
to say, we now have Internet groups, which had not grown as large as of 1995, much less 1964.
3. Near the end of his sermon Rev. Trumbore said, "The
ain't-it-awful game doesn't help in this growth of the soul,
rather it shrivels the heart into a little dry nut. For judgment
without love and compassion is meaningless."
So do see whether you
can read about these people without
hating them. :-) I do not think that
hatred will help with doing whatever
you might want to do to try get in
their way, if anything, or with trying to encourage
others to help get in their way, even if you think killing them one by one would
help. No that is NOT a suggestion.
It is for clarification of
what it is that I am saying here.
One can be cold-blooded and act without wasting time and
energy with hatred. Supposedly that can even lead to better
decision-making.
Profiting
from Climate Change, by Professor Gary Olsen, CommonDreams.org
March 31, 2014.
love,
Larry
