"World unrest is the result of a Grand Idea being born...

[drokhole]

...the terror those in power feel is a birth pang. Ideas can be very painful to the power brokers. A new idea is the result of the dethroning of a reigning God." - Christopher S. Hyatt


From the unrest in Egypt to Syria to Wall Street to Greece (and many places in between), it sure feels like that Grand Idea is taking hold. I don't know where this is all headed, but one thing seems certain - there's no putting the genie back in the bottle. It's gonna to be an interesting ride.

"A radical inner transformation and rise to new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
- Stanislov Grof

"Every slightest effort at opening up new areas of thought, every attempt to perceive new aspects of truth, or just a little truth, is of inestimable value in preparing the way for the light we cannot see."
- James Douglass

"You are part of a society, and you are struggling to adjust yourself to it. But that society is the outcome of acquisitiveness. It is the outcome of envy, fear, greed, possessive pursuits, with occasion flashes of love. Surely, you have to create a new society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete."

"Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

[Kurovski]

1. K&R. (nt)

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. K&R! The last two quotes, absolutely. #OWS' only demand: Get out of the way.

[drokhole]

3. I love Buckminster Fuller, he dedicated his life to cheap-energy-for-all...

...with his notion of the Global Energy Grid (among other selfless, noble causes). His ideas and inventions were never popular with the Wall Street-types because they weren't profitable in a monetary sense (and, hence, struggled to catch on) - but they were no doubt profitable for humanity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYv1fM4-hpM&list=FLdtzbRTSD6TZYFecpWpcD2g&index=77
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ06EE_cnyc&feature=related

[ixion]

4. k/r... agreed.

[Demeter]

5. The World's Unrest Is the Result of Great Crimes Being Done

The great ideas have done their work already over the last 300 years....because people do not think it is their natural lot in life to be victims any more.

[drokhole]

6. Speak of the devils...

http://gawker.com/5846927/bold-chicago-traders-launch-the-counter-revolution">Bold Chicago Traders Launch the Counter Revolution

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, drokhole.

[drokhole]

8. My pleasure!

Nice to see ya, Uncle Joe! :hi:

[Uncle Joe]

9. Nice to see you as well, drokhole.

Peace to you, :hi: