Panikkar: "Human beings now hold in their hands the fate of all life on the planet, investing the problem of peace with cosmic proportions.. interrogating the very foundations of culture, the very ends of life and reality. This is the novelty and difficulty of peace in our days."
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Copy of tweet and subtweet: Nick_routledge Nick_routledge and 3/ A defining cultural challenge is how to learn/teach the democratic foundations of robust food systems and, in the same breath, resilient food systems as robust foundations of democracy. Wendell Berry: "At some point these issues catch up to you." Nick_routledge We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture, Wendell Berry says: “At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another...You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”
@Tao_Orion In other words, 'power-differentials' matter not a whit when no less than evolutionary ontology itself settles terms between an essentially artificial compass, and one inhabiting the truth of the Real; between an economic-transactional reality, and ecological-relational living.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: ‘Rich’ and ‘poor’? Constructs distinguishing a ‘transactional’ or ‘quid quo pro’ (as distinct from ‘transformational’) stance with regard to experience and reality; the former pointing at a personal and corporate hell-realm of disassociation, alienation and inescapable Reckoning. Quote tweet: You're not alone. No matter their era or area of origin, planetary prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff