Sustainability Party
"For Many We are One"
The principles of our democratic antecedents while steadfastly noble and worth striving for periodically need a refocused emphasis or require a contemporary rearticulation. Liberte, Fraternite, Egalitarite and Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness all remain noble ends but without a strident voice to speak up and define what these things mean in our ever changing world the corporate forces of greed and disenfranchisement will actively seek to limit these freedoms.
For the time in which we live, the early 21st Century, we beleive the rights listed below are basic and essential in any enlightened society.
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Credit "trefoil" symbol: from Michiel Schwarz & Joost Elffers, Sustainism Is the New Modernism: A Cultural Manifesto for the Sustainist Era (2010). cc by-nc-nd.
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More liked postsThe important quote in the article comes from industry analyst Craig Moffett.
“This isn’t about protecting against the data network being swamped with excess usage,” Sanford Bernstein senior analyst Craig Moffett said. “This is about putting the business model on a stable, long-term economic model.”
Net Neutrality: The Basics
[Via: Online MBA Programs
There are a number of different activists and organizations fighting to preserve Net Nuetrality but here’s a quick list of a few national organizations taking the fight to our elected represenatives on a regular basis.
EFF - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
OSDF - Open Sour Democrcay Foundation
Here’s an Infographic from Read Write Web
*The relative merit vs. legality of the actions of Anonymous are open for debate but their actions thus far have come from sincere motives.
This short video from the The Story of Stuff project is an apt illustration of many of the Corporate sponsored problems which currently plague the US. But, it only scratches he surface of the issue. The film “The Corporation” from 2003 delves deeper into the process of Corporate Personification that began the transfer of rights from Citizens to conglomerates in the 20th century and continues today.
-Daniel Lee
The Virtue of Selfishness : In Defense of Altruism
In her Objectivist treatise “The Virtue of Selfishness” Ayn Rand claims that the principle fault of Altruism is that:
“Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil”
In Rand’s world of fictional function female heroines like Dagny Taggart and morally upright near perfect businessman and architects like John Galt, Henry Reardon and Howard Roark such an assertion may have held some truth. At least while the pages of her exhaustive tomes were open and their stories alive in the reader’s mind. In the terms of real life in the 21st century such claims are not only patently absurd but nakedly disingenuous. A bit earlier in the introduction she defines Selfishness as Self-Interest which in the current world climate only serves to further undermine her argument and the flimsy premise that it is based upon.
Many Republican and Tea Party pundits cite Rand as the source material for much of their “Class Warfare” rhetoric and from the warped logic of the above quote and much of Rand’s oeuvre one can plainly see how some of the mutated views claimed as truths by these parties came to be. It is an error of perception so great that is skews the reading of the urgent potentially catastrophic issues of our day to such a degree much that they are seen as the insignificant concerns of an unnaturally compassionate or simply wrongheaded liberal base. When they are in fact the fights of our lives.
