From: "Integral World" To: Subject: Liberals vs. Conservatives Date: zondag 3 juni 2012 21:30 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 402 Amsterdam, June 3rd, 2012 MAYA - The Physics of Deception - DAVID LANE Every present moment is in truth a past moment, since what we think happens right now actually occurs nano seconds before. Even the experience of seeing this in front of your eyes is bounded by how fast the light can bounce off the screen and scatter back to your eyes which though exceedingly fast is lagged once the photons reach your optic nerve and then become transformed as chemical-electrical signals passing through a gauntlet of neurons and synaptic clefts to reach the visual cortex only to be recognized as an idea that was mistakenly believed to be instantaneous. Nothing arrives on time; rather everything arrives in time, even if we have been neurologically tricked into believing otherwise. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane30.html SAME VALUES, DIFFERENT GROUPS - Why Liberals and Conservatives Talk Past Each Other - ANDY SMITH Americans will elect—maybe, re-elect—their President in less about five months, and the campaign season is in full sway. Actually, it is always is, nowadays. None of the issues being argued over—the economy, health care, immigration, national defense, and so on—is new, nor are the positions on them being staked out by each candidate. Thanks to the internet, political discussions now go on 24/7, in every season of every year. One might think, naively, that because the internet gives everyone a soapbox, everyone a chance to put his views and their rationale out in the public domain, that some progress might be made towards achieving a political consensus in America. One might expect that since every issue of importance to our lives is subjected to closer scrutiny than ever before, with every idea, claim or argument receiving feedback from dozens, hundreds or thousands of people with somewhat different views, that there might be an emerging consensus on some of them, or at least areas of general agreement. One might hope that because there are, and have been for a very long time, only two major parties in the U.S., that they might by now have taken at least some tentative steps towards resolving their differences. This does not seem to have happened. If anything, the greater public expression of political views has increased, not decreased, individual differences. While there are undoubtedly other factors at work, it surely is not just coincidence that America today, where political debate is more open and accessible than ever before, is more politically polarized than it has been in decades, perhaps to the greatest degree in its history. Neither party, in the eyes of the other, is willing to work, to compromise, with the other at all. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith39.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html ----- Geen virus gevonden in dit bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 2012.0.2178 / Virusdatabase: 2425/5042 - datum van uitgifte: 06/03/12