Politics
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Are you fed up with politics, but still want to be involved in the issues of the day? Is government that recognizes heart and soul possible? Can the citizen make a difference? Are you worthy of democracy? Does politics have to be adversarial? What does it mean to vote with your life?
Visionary Politics Journey
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Explore
It is essential for the mind is to be young, fresh, innocent – that is, in a state of revolution.
Reflect
What political issue do you care about?
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Reflect on Politics: What political issue do you care about?
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Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
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Challenge
Look for the good in the other side.
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Politics Challenge
Do not believe what you are told by the government or media.
Do not condemn the other side unthinkingly.
Do not appeal to or blame leaders or authorities.
Reconstruct any hopeless political issue and make it Visionary.
“At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ from other people, but in what we agree with them; and the moment we find we can agree as to anything that should be done, kind or good, (and who but fools couldn’t?) then do it; push at it together.” John Ruskin
Do not condemn the other side unthinkingly.
Do not appeal to or blame leaders or authorities.
Reconstruct any hopeless political issue and make it Visionary.
“At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ from other people, but in what we agree with them; and the moment we find we can agree as to anything that should be done, kind or good, (and who but fools couldn’t?) then do it; push at it together.” John Ruskin
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Action
Turn a political dilemma into a Quest.
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Become a Guide for Politics
Be a Guide for any existing Visionary society political Quest:
– Facilitate a meeting
– Prepare for City-wide engagement
– Facilitate a meeting
– Prepare for City-wide engagement
"What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all…It is as if a thinker submitted himself to be rasped by the great gizzard of creation. Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel."
Henry David Thoreau
Quests on Politics
There are 4 Quests. Each Quest has tools to Explore, Reflect and take action. Select one that interests you and get started!
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Politics
A Visionary Society Quest
– Do not accept the assumptions of the status quo (the right, middle, or left).
– Instead of demanding change from your opponent, ask for empathy, contrition, reflection.
– Never humiliate anyone. (For example, using derogatory terms such as anti-vaxxer or Karen).
– Create enough time in your life to engage in current affairs.
– Find a way that changes assumptions, that all sides can agree with, that works at the heart level.
– Respond at the level at which harm is being generated.
– Don’t vote for a second-rate way of life.
– Vote by what you actually do in your life.
– Instead of demanding change from your opponent, ask for empathy, contrition, reflection.
– Never humiliate anyone. (For example, using derogatory terms such as anti-vaxxer or Karen).
– Create enough time in your life to engage in current affairs.
– Find a way that changes assumptions, that all sides can agree with, that works at the heart level.
– Respond at the level at which harm is being generated.
– Don’t vote for a second-rate way of life.
– Vote by what you actually do in your life.
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