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Re: [pf] "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis
by Nan Hildreth
01 December 2000 09:23 UTC

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I think I get it.   It seems the big difference between Traditional worldview 
folks and creatives is our way of relating.  www.culturalcreatives.org

A traditonal might say "Where's the devil?  Lemme beat him up.  We stomped 
Hitler, we stomped the commies.  Let's stomp these new devils that cause moral 
decay, economic inequality,  and environmental destruction."     

Uncertainty and crisis is the moral equivalent of war.  Let's stomp the devil 
and get our proud, young, optimistic nation back.    But we have met the enemy 
and he is us.   For years I've watched us shoot ourselves in the foot.   Ouch. 

Us creative worldview folks can show folks a way out of the trap with wisdom, 
like that of Jesus.   He said "Love your enemies."    Love ourselves?  Yep. 

This crisis is also an opportunity.   An opportunity to be born again.  

Nan

At 09:53 PM 11/30/00 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
>This is weird.
>
>I don't know any of you and I didn't call any of you or your relatives
>babbitts.  I just gave a definition of the word.
>
>If I defined the word Nazi for you would you all think I was calling you
>Nazis?  Or if I defined the word communist, would you all think I was
>labeling you such?
>
>Too weird.


Nan Hildreth    Nan.Hildreth@Pdq.net  (713) 864-7108

We are in the middle of a titanic clash between two ways of seeing the world. 
One assumes that technology and maximum economic growth will resolve the 
problems of the world, that continuation of twentieth-century emphases is 
viable.

The other believes that we need new goals. It argues that only a concentration 
on social cohesion, ecological integrity, effective decision-making, and the 
quality of life can prevent massive disasters.

-- Robert Theobald Turning the Century