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ARTelevision · 01-01-2011, 12:37 PM

This story, from the LA Times, got me thinking of the need for new ways to grasp what the world needs now:

Brazil president: New president of Brazil sworn in - latimes.com

The gist of it revolves around the background and context of the new President of Brazil:

"Dilma Rousseff is Brazil's first female president, taking over from the immensely popular Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The new president hopes to keep the country's booming economy on track while advancing her Workers Party social agenda."

As I completed reading the piece, I had thoughts very similar to those of the commenter below. I was pleased to see them so well stated. Here's the comment:

"dbtkgrace at 10:46 AM January 01, 2011
The newly elected president who was a former Marxist is not a reflection on Brazil but a profound reflection on how backward a country US has become as the Right will denounce the election as a step toward communism and dictatorship.

The right appears unable to grasp the situation that the only military might in the world is us. The only country who has the might and the dangerous support from mostly the Republican side to invade any country in the world at any cost to the people of their own.

To put things in perspective, the tragedy of 9/11 horrible as it may seem, was just a slap in the face by an ignorant little group of thugs who in order to gain the most attention "bothers" the biggest guy in the neighborhood.....perspectively speaking in historical war atrocity terms of course. And indeed in order to get out of the mess we're in in the Middle East, we have to accept the 9/11 in historical context. Otherwise, we'll continue to live in fear and put our own citizens in dire economic conditions that we find ourselves in.

Brazil an economically troubled country "not so long ago" decides to elect a former Marxist as a president. I don't think this happens if the people of Brazil were fearful as we are of the past as we continue to be. Living in fear in the US. Not the US that I imagined in year 2011."

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It's true. We must begin to embrace new paradigms that are able to come to terms with the fact that the world from which we are emerging is not the world we are living in, and it is not the world of the future.

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For me, it is all about compassion. I need to see a politics and an economics of empathy and compassion supplant the old hyper-competitive notions that got us here.

How do you see the new world order shaping up? Are you able to get beyond the old labels to see global realities in new, more constructive ways?

01-01-2011, 12:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	New Perspective - the need to go beyond old political paradigms This story, from the LA Times, got me thinking of the need for new ways to grasp what the world needs now: Brazil president: New president of Brazil sworn in - latimes.com The gist of it revolves around the background and context of the new President of Brazil: "Dilma Rousseff is Brazil's first female president, taking over from the immensely popular Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The new president hopes to keep the country's booming economy on track while advancing her Workers Party social agenda." As I completed reading the piece, I had thoughts very similar to those of the commenter below. I was pleased to see them so well stated. Here's the comment: "dbtkgrace at 10:46 AM January 01, 2011 The newly elected president who was a former Marxist is not a reflection on Brazil but a profound reflection on how backward a country US has become as the Right will denounce the election as a step toward communism and dictatorship. The right appears unable to grasp the situation that the only military might in the world is us. The only country who has the might and the dangerous support from mostly the Republican side to invade any country in the world at any cost to the people of their own. To put things in perspective, the tragedy of 9/11 horrible as it may seem, was just a slap in the face by an ignorant little group of thugs who in order to gain the most attention "bothers" the biggest guy in the neighborhood.....perspectively speaking in historical war atrocity terms of course. And indeed in order to get out of the mess we're in in the Middle East, we have to accept the 9/11 in historical context. Otherwise, we'll continue to live in fear and put our own citizens in dire economic conditions that we find ourselves in. Brazil an economically troubled country "not so long ago" decides to elect a former Marxist as a president. I don't think this happens if the people of Brazil were fearful as we are of the past as we continue to be. Living in fear in the US. Not the US that I imagined in year 2011." * It's true. We must begin to embrace new paradigms that are able to come to terms with the fact that the world from which we are emerging is not the world we are living in, and it is not the world of the future. * For me, it is all about compassion. I need to see a politics and an economics of empathy and compassion supplant the old hyper-competitive notions that got us here. How do you see the new world order shaping up? Are you able to get beyond the old labels to see global realities in new, more constructive ways? __________________ create evolution Last edited by ARTelevision; 01-01-2011 at 01:02 PM..