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i’m heading to a one month long meditation retreat tonight, to work with my own tendencies to frame things as ‘us’ versus ‘them’ and ‘gain’ versus ‘loss’.
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one thing that was on my mind about this US election, is that no matter who won there would be many unhappy people. most voters were passionate about their candidate. so either way, there would be many very happy people and many very unhappy people. people felt that this election really mattered to them, that the outcome would have a significant impact. that’s definitely how i was feeling.
why was i feeling that way? four years ago i was disappointed, but more open minded that perhaps Bush wouldn’t be so bad. somehow i came to the conclusion that Bush really was doing serious damage. but to some degree i think i blamed him for the larger situation. september 11 shifted opinion in general away from my viewpoint, toward imperialism and religious factionalism and the police state. i credited Bush for that but that was convenient, the situation is the larger issue.
so how do we impact the larger situation, so that no matter who is elected this year and the next 100 years things continue to move in positive directions? there is much that can be done, but no immediate fixes. that’s frustrating but just the way things are i guess, we just go step by step. at least i’ll keep reminding myself that.
i’ve received over a hundred comment spam posts in the last twenty four hours. alas, things are going to way of email in the blogosphere. while i’m away on retreat i’m going to turn off commenting on any posts so my blog isn’t overrun while i’m away. so annoying.
update: i made some modifications to the blog so at least the robot generated comment spam will be reduced.
it’s interesting for me to think about laws and rules with respect to telecommunications and mail and how that relates to this. the other day i was talking to my mailman, and i asked him if i could request that coupons and local mail spam going to “resident” at my mailing address could be stopped. he said no. but i can add myself to a do not call list for my local phone number. what burden should we put on the the physical, phone, email, and now blog spammers or on the carriers for controlling the nuisance?