Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to
oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my
country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights,
1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's
worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown
Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's
rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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This
afternoon (January 18) I have headache. Last night I watched the
tape "MindWalk" based on the writings of scientist
Fritjof Capra and I was reminded of the importance to see our events
and experiences as patterns of relationships rather than as they
present to ourselves as perceptions. In fact, the truth is that our
truths are all made up as patterns of relationships. In particular,
our smaller atomic particles behave as matter and as waves and their
different relationships materialize with our perception of reality.
In this respect, I remember sometime ago communicating with Tim
Shire, publisher of Ensign, and agreeing with him that
future researches should mostly be directed into the study of our
nervous system rather than into the infinitesimal make up of our
body.
But what I am thinking now is about what to do with our
Capitalism defined as Free Market. This morning I got so
mad at B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's governmental cuts and I
expressed my understanding that he is driving British Columbia to
become a fascist province. I have been expressing my continuous
resentment to what has been happening to the Free market, to world
wide violence and poverty, and after reading some works of John
Ralston Saul I began to understand and use the term 'Fascism.'
The Eron's collapse has identified the weakness of
unrestrained Capitalism, accounting institutions are
corrupted, business conglomerates are corrupted, political
institutions are corrupted, financial institutions are corrupted,
educational institutions are corrupted as they teach our own kids
the gospel of Free Market Capitalism. We have former states'
officials who have created the Carlyle Group and who are
making money out of the war on terrorism.
I hear today that the Ontario's privatization plan has been
blamed for the Ecoli tragedy in Walkerton. Some time ago I
got a bit frustrated as I was losing my continuity of expressing my
thoughts, and then I realized that we cannot be too focused on a
single topic as we must learn how to think in terms of relationships
and compare apples and oranges. This is what economist Paul Krugman
has concluded about Capitalism: A System Corrupted.
References
Pertinent article in Ensign
The ex-presidents' club (Carlyle), Oliver Burkeman and Julian
Borger, October 31, 2001 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,583869,00.html
http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html
A System Corrupted, by Paul Krugman, Oriinally published in The
New York Times, 1.18.02 http://www.pkarchive.org/column/011802.html |
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