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Editorial for July 2008 - Maiia
Cairns is rearin' up to go this festival season. For Travellers
All Things Being Equal... "The Melody Still Lingers on" alright.
36 years ago -writing peace on our desktops was in and the Vietnam war was out. That melody still lingers on ... PEACE WEEK 2008 - 'Blessed are the Peacemakers'
Bein' a Maori girl from Gisborne, I couldn't cop this class-system they were teaching. Obviously upside down these Northern hemispherians and their struggle mentality. Lmfao. And Greenwich mean-time was 12 hours behind us. Waitangi Day In Cairns
"26 years ago - I was writing on social equity and delivery of 'equality in education' Hadn't heard of the terminology individual Mastery back then - "Do what ya do do well boy" university enough. Metaphors are so much easier.
Our weathers so nice - fishing weather! - an' I'm sure a lot of Australian's know the feeling. That life is meant for better things, all things being equal an' all.
Prof' Csikszentmihalyi ... "There are strengths and virtues that are worth cultivating is something that not just psychology has to take seriously- but also the humanities. So much of English lit', art criticism etc' has become kinda cynical, and ah- self-congratulatory, - without really considering what - the great works of art or the great writers have been trying to accomplish. Which is to lift people up. Make them feel proud of being humans and trying to be better than they were before"
Tom Munnecke: What's triggered that? What's triggered the cynicism?
Cszikszentmihalyi "Oh - That's a good question - "I think that after centuries of progress in technology and science we still had world wars we still had depressions and people lost kind of faith in progress as a general trend. Progress has to start in the human heart and human soul. And that we have neglected. We have really a serious concern about human values and human being except in the material sense." - Flow Psychologist Csikszentmihalyi
Miles Davis - Time after Time...
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