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Whino's avatar

As Burchard put it, bring the joy. Generate the joy. Be the power plant of joy.

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Tom Graves's avatar

"Be the power plant of joy" - yes, exactly.

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Robert Mckee's avatar

Tom, Life has become more about existence, than living. No joy in that revelation.

No Joy, in poverty, hunger, wars, climate events etc...

Will the world ever put aside their differences to facilitate global needs or are we deglobalizing and returning to every man / woman for themselves.

Great read, thanks.

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Tom Graves's avatar

Many thanks for this. The point I'm hoping to make here is that, however bleak it may seem, it's still always up to us to make the changes happen.

The whole aim of the oligarchs and other parasites is to instil a sense hopelessness, that 'There Is No Alternative' to a world in which they alone rule, and everyone else is their serfs and slaves. _It's up to us to change that_ - to show it to be the empty myth that it actually is. And one way we can do that is by reclaiming our own joy. To quote Thomas More, somewhen way back around the early 16th century, "The Devil, that prowde spirit, cannot bear to be mock'd" - so, let's have the laughter, at the absurdity of it all. That alone would be a useful start, I think?

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Arvind Patil's avatar

Very nicely put with thoughtful insights. Let's enjoy and live the moment.

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Tom Graves's avatar

"Let's enjoy and live the moment" - yes, exactly. Let's reclaim the joy - _our_ joy, not someone else's fake synthetic version of it, which is usually the 'best' that's on offer in the public spheres these days...

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