A REASON FOR HOPE: Hello from Jim

A REASON FOR HOPE

By using their new three-part brain to create ideas, and developing their new potential for speech, our first human ancestors began an experiment in cooperative living. It was to share their new ideas by learning to "talk" to each other, form and carry out cooperative group plans of defensive action, and thereby increase their chance for survival and happiness in a dangerous world.
This "Human Experiment" worked very well. Their shared, cooperative ideas became the first culture, a unique human invention that guided their group thinking and behavior in a cooperative direction, and put them on a highly successful course for a long time.
Then their descendants unknowingly altered their Cultural Process and put themselves on the self-destructive course on which we find ourselves today. How did that happen, and how can we now regain our successful course? The answers to these questions will be presented in this blog, and they offer us humans "A Reason for Hope."

PLEASE NOTE: Out of my experience in WWII has come the rest of this blog, so to understand it all it is necessary to begin with Part One by clicking below.

Nov 8, 2011

Hello from Jim

Welcome to my blog! For my first publication, click here: this Page tells the story of the experiences of a soldier in World War Two, and how they led to the writing of this blog.

My name is Jim.
I was eighteen in 1943, when I entered my wartime service...

And here I was recently with my granddaughter, Lily.

The local newspaper cropped that photo for their story, below.

1 comment:

Meri WalkerNovember 21, 2011
What a wonderful new blog, Jim!!!! Congratulations on getting this important sharing started. I'm looking forward to more...
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Vision and the contract

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"A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world." - Inscription on a church in Sussex, England, 1730

"The economic revolution will be moral or it will not succeed. The moral revolution will be economic or it will not succeed." - Don Jose Arrizmendiarrieta, Mondragon Cooperative Founder

"A contract is a voluntary agreement." - Maurice Bourquin, Professor of International Law

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Power

"All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton, Historian

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." - Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist

'Frodo exclaimed, "I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen? You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?" "No!" cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. "With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly. Do not tempt me!"' - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings