tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39291224970652774112011-08-08T04:20:30.882-07:00An artist and teacher reconnects the dots and redraws the big picture. The human experiment is facing its greatest challenge. Our ability to radically change our minds, in a short period of time, will be the key to our civilization's survival.David Heintzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01572371735821481980noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3929122497065277411.post-91074822678830282352009-09-30T11:50:00.000-07:002009-09-30T11:55:11.586-07:00

(as posted at Huffington) When oh when, dear God or universal life force? When will we be able to have a public discussion in this country about FEAR, why we are so vulnerable to its FALSE stimuli, and often so blind to the real dangers we face? These right wing fanatics are either blinded by their own unconscious fears, projecting them onto everything and everyone threatening their world view,

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In an ultimate irony, S.C. Rep. Joe Wilson has swept away any doubt, even among Christian Evangelists, that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is in fact observable scientific truth. He’s done this by acting as a living example of the “Missing Link” between the semi-intelligent apes and “Homo Moralis” or the species represented by humans capable of self-reflection and moral judgement. Creationists

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I've been a Socialist and an Environmentalist since my teens in the early 60s and I'm tired of feeling schizo about it. We take great guilty pleasure in the writhing contortions of the Republican / NeoCon ghost dance, in spite of our supposed liberal sense of empathy. It's OK. Enjoy it. Revel in it. Liberals question themselves to a fault; it has led to rubber stamping or failing to confront the

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I've been given an opportunity to rant in a video interview, conducted by Opal Palmer Adisa and her team in the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts. Her project is called "Change it up with Obama" and includes an extensive collection of interviews with artists, students and faculty. You can access my interview here. The blog for the project is here. And the

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A new on-line zine, "nthWord" has published a piece of my writing in their first edition. The founders, Ryan O'Connor and Robert Frigault, define their central mission as, "Adjust Your Thinking," which is completely in line with my fundamental premise: that a wide and deep paradigm shift must precede the massive cultural shifts essential to survival. They have featured my essay "The Human

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AlterNet is inviting essays on a vision of Obama's first 100 days in 100 words. They have just posted this piece from me: A comic framed the issues precisely, “I don’t wanna be an alarmist. Lemme rephrase that. I’m an alarmist.” When Obama said he wanted to “change the mindset that took us to war,” he elevated the global conversation and created a new profile for American leadership. It’s the

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(Arianna asked for suggestions for her upcoming appearance sitting in for Rachel Maddow.)Arianna, The nation owes you a lot. You and a couple other activist sites helped make this huge possibility for change ... um, possible. The second time I saw Rachel appear on Olbermann, I said, "she's going to have her own show on MSNBC within six months." I was pretty close. So thanks to the two of them

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At Templeton.org/belief the foundation is hosting a conversation on whether science makes a belief in God obsolete. It's been dominated in the last few days by two people sparring for position in the Creationism / Evolution debate, mostly around rather peripheral sub-issues. But there's lot of good stuff there. I'm putting my two cents, posted there, up here also. This great question must be

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I wouldn't boast about the few predictions I've made that have come true. I've made too many that didn't. But I'd like to lay this down with a date and see what happens. I'll lay a bet (at say 10 to 1, amount to be determined) that McCain WILL NOT be the Republican nominee for president, by the end of the convention. Either he will drop out voluntarily, have a major health issue, possibly a

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The testimony was excruciating. The memory of it is corrosive and maddening. If corporate media had noticed rather than denied the mounting evidence, an enraged public would fill the streets. AGAIN, the corporate media types hide behind their masks and blinders and deny the ignorance they have built into the American psyche. Their hands are as bloody as those of the Bush / NeoCon criminal gang.

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Whatever you think about the recent series of social forums, or what specifically went on in Atlanta, their motto sure nails the central issues. “ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, ANOTHER U.S. IS NECESSARY” This is the essence, not only of the large-scale issues, but also of the large-scale mind shift that effective action demands. One of the fundamental blocks in our cultural mindset is that we can’t

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An email petition recently caught my attention. "Let's get together and organize a boycott of the big oil companies until they bring the price of gas down to $1.50. a gallon." I responded but I didn’t sign or forward it. In spite of the obvious futility of the effort, the idea behind it struck me as a prime example of a huge mental/cultural blind spot. An inability to “connect the dots,” a

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