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Gandhi said it best

Today we live in a global system where the richest fifth consume 45% of all meat and fish, 58% of all energy used and 84% of all paper, has 74% of all telephone lines and owns 87% of all vehicles.
Globalisation has battered down international borders to the point of transnational companies exisiting beyond the scope of any one government.
Almost half of the world's six billion people now live on less than $2 a day, while 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day

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November 8th 2006 @ 05:43

Posted By: MattH - Category: Social Issues

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Post Autistic Economics

"Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing.” -Mark Blaug
PAE has challenged standard neoclassical assumptions and incorporated ideas from sociology and psychology into economic analysis. Specifically, the notions of utility theory, (consumer choice), production and efficiency theory (pareto optimality) as well as game theory have been criticised: one much discussed article read Is There Anything Worth Keeping in Standard Microeconomics?.

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November 7th 2006 @ 12:21

Posted By: MattH - Category: Social Issues

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Why do we waste time fighting each other?

At every level of human conflict, whether it be two people racing for the same cab or whether it be an oil rich country being blown to pieces by a country that requires aa shit load of oil, the human drama element is always based on some predisposed prejudice regarding a small, usually irrelevant, part of the issue being discussed.

The fact is that the vast majority of people are absolutely impervious to facts. Test the average man by asking him to listen to a simple sentence which contains one word with associations to excite his prejudices, fears or passions -- he will fail to understand what you have said and reply by expressing his emotional reaction to the critical word. It was long before I understood this fact of psychology. Even to this day, it surprises me that there should be minds which are unable to accept any impression equably and critically.
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November 7th 2006 @ 12:19

Posted By: MattH - Category: Social Issues

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RIght or Left?

The Right-wing sect knows that everything it thinks is right

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November 7th 2006 @ 05:50

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Nutty Fugekins

Nutty Fudgekins is an expression of frustration, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement and utter discombobulation regarding life in general, or at least the idea of life as it is pushed upon society in it's current state...

It is the potential of creativity

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November 7th 2006 @ 02:17

Posted By: MattH - Category: Social Issues

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Do you get it?

There are few professions in this skeewiff world of ours that offer the opportunity to speak freely on any topic you choose.

Which is odd considering we've been proclaiming freedom as the goal of all humanity-onya Dubya

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November 6th 2006 @ 12:17

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Conscious evolution and a mental revolution

the dawning...

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November 4th 2006 @ 06:06

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What's going on?

Earth is falling apart.
the powers that be have declared war on a noun
good old Johnny assures us that our most important civil liberty is to stay alive, and by gum if he has to violate every other one to uphold his promise no doubt he will

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November 4th 2006 @ 02:01

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Religion, how do you take it?

Dear Masses
I had once thought that religion was your opium. I have since come to wonder which of the two really was more addicting and/or stupeficant, and thus that I might be well to rethink the whole notion.

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November 3rd 2006 @ 20:10

Posted By: MattH - Category: Social Issues

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Final Cut and your social shield

Now i'm not normally one for reviews of any kind, i see no point in critically disecting a piece of art in the vein hope people will base their decision to see it on my interpretation.
Never the less during one of my frequent couch expeditions i managed to check this Jude Law flick out and the premise behind it sparked my interest.
It was one of the most refreshing films i've seen in a long time

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November 3rd 2006 @ 01:46

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what's mental?

A paradigm shift has taken place and alas the cognizance has taken an alternate, if only ephemeral, form.
But enough abstruse dribble, i was never one for didactic tactics, such things merely diverge from the point...which is....
well let me think

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November 2nd 2006 @ 18:05

Posted By: MattH - Category: Social Issues

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Hey look over there

A survey conducted by survey conductors, Hun and Backdoor, has found eighty percent of Australians are in full support of global free trade and advocate a transition to a single global currency by the year 2020.

It was also found most people approve of World Bank and International Monetary Bank efforts to develop remote regions of the world as yet untouched by the West for the benefit of indigenous populations, and advocate the immediate vigorous military suppression of opposition anywhere to peace, freedom, and/or democracy

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November 2nd 2006 @ 01:28

Posted By: MattH - Category: Social Issues

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The single most important decision...

...anyone will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly..

The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." ---- FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

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November 1st 2006 @ 03:57

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Everything i say must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question

Physics has had problems since Heisenberg Einstein and Bohr first encountered the network of relationships that is the universe..It's rooted in the Cartesian world view and without acknowledging the limits of that perspective it's relatively useless.

Descartes mechanical paradigm views nature as a perfect machine governed by mathematical laws

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November 1st 2006 @ 02:43

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