Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Hating Capitalism Datum: donderdag 26 maart 2015 18:44 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 555 Amsterdam, March 26th, 2015 CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE CLASS (AND CLASH) OF INTEGRAL IDEAS - JOE CORBETT Therefore, rather than a proposal for fostering cultural evolution within Islam by learning to love it, I would propose the alternative of fostering cultural evolution within the West, and particularly within America, by learning to hate global capitalism. To this end, first, there is the problem of how to foster the cultural evolution of Christian fundamentalism and militarist nationalism within America, for without a remedy to these social problems, looking to foster cultural evolution elsewhere is a bit like offering to clean your neighbors laundry before you've cleaned your own, and then you just end up getting your neighbors laundry dirty again after you've tried to clean it. And by the way, good luck with that task as long as we've got the media and the corporate-military-police-state with a firm grip on the whole spectacle. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett29.html WHY I DON'T EAT FACES - A Neuro-Ethical Argument for Vegetarianism - DAVID LANE It is precisely when we have a choice that vegetarianism becomes a moral issue. We may not have an option about the fact of eating and drinking, but we most certainly have a choice about what kinds of foods we are going to eat. My hunch is that if we examine how our bodies evolved we will be much more sympathetic to those things which have developed via natural selection and the like the ability to "feel" pain via their central nervous systems. Then we will be much more willing through our scientific understanding, not necessarily our spiritual understanding, to let these creatures alone. Thus the vegetarian argument can be posed in a purely materialistic perspective: Is it necessary to eat animals to survive? Or, is it possible to live a life eating things that do not have a brain and which, by extension, do not have the material complexity to centralize pain? I think the answer, again, is pretty simple: Yes. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane89.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