[MD] How are people controlled?

[Ron Kulp]

MOQ art? You decide.... Alex grey  great stuff..
 www.alexgrey.com
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[DM]
Critical thinking, creativity, quality, sounds good to me. What do we
do? Do we not need to spread the word? Do we need MOQ art?

[Arlo]
I think there are two basic avenues to this scale of change.

First is a fundamental change to social education, beginning at the
earliest levels. Art (in all its guises) should be stressed. We should
look, for example, to the "Arete" of ZMM, the excellence in all areas of
life strived for. ZMM should become required reading at the high school
level (along with the Guidebook). I've proposed (and have been shot down
every time) a four-year comparative mythology track. I've also argued
for meditation and yoga beginning at the earliest school levels
(techniques for achieving peace of mind). 
Curriculae should be integrated, and developed from a "holistic" 
stance, to show the interconnectedness of all things. Respect for being
"part of the world and not an enemy of it" should be encouraged and not
disparaged.

Second is exposure to cultures where this is more the norm than ours. 
Witnessing "real, live" social habits based on Quality and no S/O
dualism. Supporting Zen centers, such as the one Pirsig brought to
Minneapolis, should be considered. Rather that blindly demanding
immigrants conform to our habits, we should look to Japanese/Native
American/India-Indian and other non-S/O cultures for inspiration and
adopt their habits when those habits are Quality-oriented.

Finally it will depend on spreading the word. As more and more
individuals become aware of the alienation produced by modern S/O life,
and are given a language for combatting it, change will occur, slowly at
first.

Sadly, I will admit, when I look at the world I am not encouraged. 
S/O dominance spreads, as "wealth" and technological production spreads,
and more and more people are made to serve the empty fortress of
"individualism" and the Capistrocracy. Lured by shiny objects, we walk
to our own enslavement. Led away from Quality, of "being part of the
world", we become its enemy. And turn only to the vendors of style to be
told what is of value and what is not. But despite overall pessimism, I
do see some signs of hope. I mentioned Google and Starbucks as
labor-examples that bring optimism. To paraphrase Marsha, more people
are starting to get that its "We the People" and not "We the Markets".

MOQ art? I like the idea. I remember a while back that a group of
migraine-suffering artists created a display called "headache art" to
prompt awareness of their suffering. In the same awareness-type way,
perhaps our artist contributors would digitize some of their work that
they feel represents "Quality". (Obviously, you could make the argument
that ALL art is a representation of Quality, but I hope you know what I
mean.)

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