Steve in 2008!

[Bruce Achterberg]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

When Steve... er I mean IF Steve runs for president someday it probably won't be for any known party. He would be partyless, thus containerizing everyone else who is running in a party.

He would lead the country, not govern it. He would challenge people to improve. He wouldn't take hock from anyone. And he most certainly wouldn't pander to anyone who gave him money. I think he'd be great for this country actually. But I'm biased.

2008 is too soon. He's gotta build an offline presence first. Let's not put the cart before the horse.

I agree with Erin that 2008 would be too soon, but I think limiting Steve to only leading America would be very “un-Steve”. It'd be like Steve making his blog only read-able in the US -- it would be a terrible waste. I believe Steve needs and is suited to having the whole world as his “area of influence” -- the collective whole.

I also believe Steve would be better suited for a position in an "elite council" of some sort that contains a host of highly conscious individuals. Something kind of like the United Nations, but the council would actually be effective and do some good for the world as opposed to... well, doing pretty much nothing and selling out like the United Nations does. (I’m grossly uneducated when it comes to politics, so if you think I’m wrong/stupid/ignorant/sexy and feel the need to make posts informing me of such things, I’ll make it easy for you and just agree with you now so you can bypass the need to post and move on to more important things. )

I'd personally want to see a mix of polarised light and dark workers working together in the council... not so much "together" (we don't want to mix/dilute polarities), but in a way that takes the best of both worlds and puts it to use towards a common goal. I think they'd synergise nicely (although I have little experience with dark/light workers working together or in some sort of synergy, so I have zero idea how well that'd work in practice). I'd go into detail as to "why" I made this particular point, but that will make my post overly lengthy, and since I'm working with a possibly incomplete model of polarity, I'd rather not fully invest in what I say as there's a good chance my understanding is flawed.

What would the council do? Well, I believe that would be for the council to decide (eg. “Where can we do the most good? What is our highest point of leverage?”). While it’d be nice if the various countries of the world to cooperate with such an "entity", I think the council would be more effective operating outside the quagmire of our existing systems that are limiting/dysfunctional to varying degrees.

I’m not suggesting that this “council” should further fragment the populus of the world. Quite the contrary; I’m suggesting that they would do something very much like what Bruce Lee tried to do with his martial arts “style” (I use that word loosely), Jeet Kune Do -- go beyond systems and styles and teach people to do the same... to establish systems that aid people in liberating themselves from their restrictive systems so that they may fully embrace, firstly their own unique identity as an individual, and secondly the fact that we are not an assortment of races and caste systems but a species with an enormous amount of potential -- potential, that for a large part, remains untapped.

To quote Bruce Lee, in all of his brilliance (try not to take the word "fighting" too literally; rather, extract the essence of the quote):

“I don't believe in different ways of fighting now, I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs - then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.”

[Erin Pavlina]

Bruce is right.

First the apocalypse which will kill off 85% of humanity.
Then the rebuilding and unification of the planet.
Then the One World Council with 13 highly conscious leaders
Then the Vulcans come and we get off this planet.

[Brutha]

Before you are able to change something you have to know the rules of the game.

Reading the news and a bit more about politics is important to get a grasp more issues. You also have to do that over some time to have a sense of where things are headed.

You have to know how to get a majority for a law you want to get passed.
A lot of politics has to do with managing other people.

As far as I know Steve has no employes at the moment. People who get elected as president should have dealt with managing a large number of people before.

Maybe Steve for 2016?

[Megan]

Well, yes...there's all that, Brutha....

Elite council, Bruce? That phrase kinda creeps me out....

If corporations keep gobbling power (I just read that 50 of the top 100 economies in the world are corporations) we'll have some elite councils, alrighty.

Vulcans, anyone?

[Bruce Achterberg]

Originally Posted by Megan

Elite council, Bruce? That phrase kinda creeps me out....

Why have just a normal council when you can have a 1337 council?

Originally Posted by Megan

If corporations keep gobbling power (I just read that 50 of the top 100 economies in the world are corporations) we'll have some elite councils, alrighty.

Vulcans, anyone?

Apparently I need to watch more Star Treck. Too bad TV burns... it burrrrns I tell you!

[Megan]

Leet--that's a new one on me! Guess you're right...TV burrrrns...oops...gotta go...DR. PHIL'S ON!!!