Sunday Open Thread – February 18, 2007

What I’m planning on writing about soon:

• Finding & Working With Others to Save the World: Ways to enable billions to sync with us, on their own terms, in their own context, developing their own plan of action, and then to connect and collaborate in powerful ways, in experiments and in creating and refining working models in their own self-selected Earth-stewarding intentional communities, so that they no longer need the systems that are destroying our world.
• What a Fair Tax System Might Look Like: Taxing bads (to discourage socially and environmentally destructive behaviour) and excess wealth (to remedy the dire consequences of gross inequality): A tax system with a purpose other than funding war and corporatist handouts.
• Seismic Shifts of Worldview: The collective change of mind that seems to be spreading everywhere, even among conservatives and those afflicted by anomie. There’s something happening here.
• The Fourth Turning: The coming era ofrepression and violent reactionary tyranny?
• The New Agenda: Kunstler’s proposal that we begin thinking of entirely new and sustainable ways of living, and of doing everything differently, starting right now.
• More on Workarounds: The only way anything important actually gets done?
• Religion as a Form of Slavery: And technophilia as the fastest growing religion of them all.
• What I would be doing 10-15 hours per week if I wasn’t blogging (and why, despite that, I’m still blogging)

What I’m thinking about:

My much-neglected, written and re-written novel, The Only Life We Know, and why it’s still so far from being finished.

How much longer readers are going to put up with me not responding to comments and e-mails on a timely basis.

What’s keeping you awake?