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Maiia: Justice is made manifest when women and families are enabled to go about their day and thus destiny unfolds - healthfully undisturbed by the oppression of Injustice...
maiia: I'm disturbed to hear in popular culture - human beings 'choose' their life...
In my experience and
 perspective Justice has very little to do with karma and much to do with environment, oppurtunity
journeys of healing and Transformation...
not trance formation.
Justice is said to be "The allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems..."
Maiia: I see an inbuilt inadequacy in institutionalised systems - (bureaucracy) This piece argues Justice is really a 'good enough' balance of education, family & community.
Self Determination
BRYAN LAW - serial ratbag?
Maiia: In the visioning the original Justice figure is the central woman in yellow pink tshirt - who is marching with the scales of justice swinging in her right hand and now incorporated into the decoration of the Christmas tree.
How To Argue with an Economist Economic rationalism and bureuacracy doesn't factor in, or know how to value the intangibles. Aspects of positive, healthy and authentic cultural life. However using the Greco-Roman mythology as a template there IS an important aspect of Justice that is above beuracracy. (see Themis below)
 The piece becomes a trintiy of maid, mother and crone. Justice merely a statue beside the library,
real Justice is about real Women.
Me my daughter and my Grandmother who bore a startling resemblance to Miles Davis when she appaeard.
It is said that even among criminals are codes - to illustrate systems are 'required' in order to have a civil society and yet almost paradoxically - that Justice and fair treatment is an essential higher truth and a human right
Economic rationalism does not factor in, or have a structure of value for intangibles- like higher truths. Bureacracy cannot measure and weigh up on their scales of Justice and Judgement- the transformative power of spirit.
Yet the Greco-Roman mythology says judgement is an important aspect of Justice is above bureaucracy.
Themis was the daughter of Gaiia and Uranus (Mother Earth Father Sky) in other traditions Themis is Gaia
Apparently the statue carries the scales for balance, good judgement, lol- fair trade. A sword is handy tool- for turning into Plough-Shares!
The women go about the daily life and family, negotiating the briar rose on the path, more concerned with the beauty of the flowers, and the sharing of a journey, than thorns and obstacles along the way. Our sword, can be the pen, paintbrush, computer or other tools in the technological era.
Economic Justice... Me an' Avy went in the bank last week an' I thought gee it would be cool to be putting money in... so there is a one to ten of pansies- some counting for the tamariki - some economics !! Who can say 'they' won't need to know?
The children carry Australian books- Maurice Gleitzman's Once and The Yalanji Fire Mangement book a work of art itself - with photography by a local environmental activist Steve Nowakowski , the bag the boy carries is the one the Fire Management book came in, from the World Wildlife Fund.
The Englishness of the plant forms was because I had been in Adelaide with a slightly different climate and colonial history to tropical Australia.
The southern cross is represented to the top left - the southern hemisphere being half the world, 1/2 of the balance the scales represent.
It is also symbolic of the confusion I felt in trying to understand Eurocentric beliefs and systems. Particularly where they fail to understand another sort of balance equality...
Maiia: Justice is made is manifest when women and families can go about their day, their destiny - undisturbed by injustice...
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