What can I do about big problems in the world? The trouble for this human being is, that I rarely see the results of what I do. I have big dreams and what look like small actions available to take every day! When I was about to check out of the grocery store with my big cart load of stuff this morning, I managed to notice that the woman behind me had a single thing in her hand, and of course I told her to go ahead. It's something most of us would do, if we notice! That's to say, it's an obvious easy thing to do if I notice. Sometimes I'm so deep in my head I'm not noticing.
Here is a great essay by Charles Eisenstein. It's part of the reading list Aumatma Shah suggests for the workshop we are putting on in San Francisco on May 23. There is one passage I like for today:
"... greed is a red herring, itself a symptom and not a cause of a deeper problem. To blame greed and to fight it by intensifying the program of self-control is to intensify the war against the self, which is just another expression of the war against nature and the war against the other that lies at the base of our civilization.....Community is closely linked to gift-giving; when anthropologists seek to understand a culture, they trace the flow of gifts." Read the whole thing!
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