Comments on: Politics With a Human Face http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:59:56 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: TomR http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002702 TomR Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:27:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002702 Oh, I almost forgot. We'd be remiss not to mention what Playing for Change is doing--bringing people together in song from around the world for peace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch3.html http://www.playingforchange.com/ - Tom Oh, I almost forgot. We’d be remiss not to mention what Playing for Change is doing–bringing people together in song from around the world for peace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch3.html
http://www.playingforchange.com/

- Tom

]]> By: carolbeth http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002516 carolbeth Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:25:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002516 Beautifully stated. Beautifully stated.

]]> By: Glenn W. Smith http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002483 Glenn W. Smith Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:28:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002483 TomR, you are right. There's a lot of potential here, coolness, too. TomR, you are right. There’s a lot of potential here, coolness, too.

]]> By: Glenn W. Smith http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002482 Glenn W. Smith Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:28:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002482 Well said, AngelsAwake. Well said, AngelsAwake.

]]> By: TomR http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002481 TomR Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:25:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002481 Very nice musical and written pieces Glenn. There is something to this, how music can cut through to people as another channel that doesn't get used as much as it could in the political world. Humor is another channel. Along these lines, "flash mobs" are finding a way to cut through and make connections with people. These two stand out in my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2QX9sMV5xI I think they work because you see people from all walks of life joining together for a common purpose out in public. They are unexpectedly and undeniably connected. - Tom Very nice musical and written pieces Glenn. There is something to this, how music can cut through to people as another channel that doesn’t get used as much as it could in the political world. Humor is another channel.

Along these lines, “flash mobs” are finding a way to cut through and make connections with people. These two stand out in my mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2QX9sMV5xI

I think they work because you see people from all walks of life joining together for a common purpose out in public. They are unexpectedly and undeniably connected.

- Tom

]]> By: carolbeth http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002477 carolbeth Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:06:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002477 <blockquote>This shouldn’t be a debate just about the insurance industry and it’s abuses. It should be a debate about people who are not getting needed healthcare ,this should be about the people.</blockquote> Isn't that the power behind all of the support for single payer (and the bastard cousin PO)? End the criminality, support the most efficient and effective use of tax payer monies, implement support for human rights in America.

This shouldn’t be a debate just about the insurance industry and it’s abuses.
It should be a debate about people who are not getting needed healthcare ,this should be about the people.

Isn’t that the power behind all of the support for single payer (and the bastard cousin PO)? End the criminality, support the most efficient and effective use of tax payer monies, implement support for human rights in America.

]]> By: carolbeth http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002476 carolbeth Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:01:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002476 So true. This is what excites me when I see ever-increasing instances of social entrepreneurship put into practice. So true. This is what excites me when I see ever-increasing instances of social entrepreneurship put into practice.

]]> By: carolbeth http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002475 carolbeth Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:58:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002475 I have to agree. Another example of hiding reality which floors me is the difference between video war coverage I watched from my dinner table during Vietnam, and the censorship of the current wars. Do I like to watch death and dismemberment? Of course not, but it is my responsibility to understand what my taxes are paying for and what my government is doing in my name. I have to agree. Another example of hiding reality which floors me is the difference between video war coverage I watched from my dinner table during Vietnam, and the censorship of the current wars.

Do I like to watch death and dismemberment? Of course not, but it is my responsibility to understand what my taxes are paying for and what my government is doing in my name.

]]> By: AngelsAwake http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002474 AngelsAwake Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:56:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002474 Beautiful. I suspect that one reason so many of mankind's current fears- as judged by watching movies, reading popular literature, seeing the memes people express- is based on faceless horror. Machines, things from beyond time and space, natural disasters- things that do not have faces, that are antithetical to the very <em>concept</em> of faces, of personality. Like with all memes, we are talking about our world in some way with them. People have had a massive increase over the past fifty years in fear of the faceless, in feeling like they've no control in their lives, in feeling like the law is random and arbitrary. We are afraid of our own bureaucracy. We are afraid of the rulemaking that happens without care for people, we are afraid of the fact that, when our lives are destroyed, we often don't get the pleasure of fighting a human villain- but instead, an inhuman company. Beautiful.

I suspect that one reason so many of mankind’s current fears- as judged by watching movies, reading popular literature, seeing the memes people express- is based on faceless horror. Machines, things from beyond time and space, natural disasters- things that do not have faces, that are antithetical to the very concept of faces, of personality.

Like with all memes, we are talking about our world in some way with them. People have had a massive increase over the past fifty years in fear of the faceless, in feeling like they’ve no control in their lives, in feeling like the law is random and arbitrary.

We are afraid of our own bureaucracy. We are afraid of the rulemaking that happens without care for people, we are afraid of the fact that, when our lives are destroyed, we often don’t get the pleasure of fighting a human villain- but instead, an inhuman company.

]]> By: DavidKaib http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/25/politics-with-a-human-face/#comment-2002472 DavidKaib Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:34:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/?p=46754#comment-2002472 Thanks. John Emerson over at OpenLeft has been leading an interesting discussion of populism that is relevant to all this. His latest is <a href="http://www.openleft.com/diary/15668/what-is-populism-iii" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thanks.

John Emerson over at OpenLeft has been leading an interesting discussion of populism that is relevant to all this. His latest is here.

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