[FRIAM] war footing

[Steve Smith]

Send a swarm of drones with daisies to place in the Russian gun-bores?

I actually know two people who were *there* at Kent State, one a 
hippy/flower-child putting the daisies in the rifle-bores and the other 
an excruciatingly young National Guardsman trying to stay at attention 
with a straight face while nubile hippy-girls danced around with said 
daisies.   I can't say the effort was without consequence, but I would 
have hoped for more.

We are overdue for "The Great Turning" as ideated by Joanna Macy 
<https://www.joannamacy.net/main> whose resume is deep and eclectic.  
She is well respected in the Systems Dynamics modeling world, in the 
Western Buddhist community, and worked for both the CIA and the Peace 
Corps during the Cold War.  As an acolyte of Erwin Laslo, she was an 
early contributor to systems thinking and it's relationship to the 
Buddhist concept of Dependent Co-arising.   The term Deep Ecology 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology> is often associated with her.

Most relevant of her writings to this discussion is her /Coming Back to 
Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World/ 
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/423116.Coming_Back_to_Life>//which 
coined and elaborated the idea of a Great Turning (a bit like a 
sociopoliticaleconomicspiritual "thermal inversion" that is overdue).   
My favorite however is World as Lover, World as Self 
<https://archive.org/details/worldasloverworl00macy>.
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On 3/2/22 10:27 AM, cody dooderson wrote:
> I will have to update my bumper sticker from "Bread Not Bombs" to 
> "Bread, Solar Panels, and Wind Turbines Not Bombs."
> I like that idea. The green war approach would benefit everyone a lot 
> more than sending in a swarm of weaponized drones.
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 10:08 AM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
>
>     I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without
>     actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine".  Start a
>     crash project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to
>     liberate our european allies from their energy dependencies on
>     russian oil and gas.  And everyone else as a side effect.
>
>     That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is
>     bonus content.  But what we can't seem to do for the "right"
>     reasons might be easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so
>     successfully making himself the most reviled man of our age.
>
>     Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social
>     effects of the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of
>     watching brute force in action are going to hurt our side a lot. 
>     That may be Putin's actual endgame for the "operation" while he
>     pretends to be Trump.   Better to be doing something positive than
>     to be waiting around to see how it turns out.
>
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