Showing posts with label Politician. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

[GMW #4563] Did Karl Marx Forecast Capitalism's Troubles Of Today

[GMW #4563] Did Karl Marx Forecast Capitalism's Troubles Of Today   Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4553 ~
I have never read Das Kapital by Karl Marx.  I think I should read it now.  After all he was a philosopher, a thinker, not a politician. Perhaps his analysis and prophecies concerning the new phenomenon of capital at the end of the 19th century had insights and forecasts which explain the troubles which beset capitalism today.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 4 - Our Place in Time

Humanity, like an individual, needs a purpose, dreams, new visions, shores to swim at, peaks to climb.  Our next target must be the year 3000.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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Monday, August 31, 2015

[GMW #3406] A Politician Should Be A Saint In Action


[GMW #3406] A Politician Should Be A Saint In Action  Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3800 ~
"A politician should be a philosopher in action."
~ Edmund Burke

I would even go further and say that a politician should be a saint in action.
Robert Schuman was an example.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II The Art of Personal Happy Living
Chapter 8, Of Health

One should never be sad because one cannot be happy when one is sad.
~ Lucia O'Barr, Our 7 years old granddaughter
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

[GMW #2955] A Politician Should Be A Philosopher In Action


[GMW #2955] A Politician Should Be A Philosopher In Action


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3349 ~
Edmund Burke said, "A politician should be a philosopher in action."

I would also say: A United Nations official, a world servant should be a philosopher in action.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I Chapter 5 The Miracle of Individual Life
All humans are equally important. The extra capacities of geniuses are no more than small bushes on a mountain.
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One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that
each successive generation is invested in
the welfare of each new generation.
~ Fred McFeely Rogers

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

[GMW #2096] What Would Jesus Say About The Mountains Of Trash And Discarded Packaging After Christmas




[GMW #2096] What Would Jesus Say About The Mountains Of Trash And Discarded Packaging After Christmas
Tuesday 30 November 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1296 ~    27 January 1998

If Jesus had seen the mountains of trash and discarded packaging thrown away in the western world after Christmas, He might have decided not to be born.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Barbara Gaughen, my wife, has said this about the role of art and culture: "A true artist should be a whole, indivisible, planetary life and cosmos-conscious being.  Artists, musicians, poets and writers have the vocation to become immortal."

How right she is: a Leonardo da Vinci, a Michelangelo, a Mozart, a Beethoven are immortal through their works while not a single politician, powerholder or wealthholder of their time is remembered.  Try to name one.

I wrote this framework for the planetary cosmic role of art and culture so that an artist can select any subject from it to celebrate it, to make it a work of art, to augment in us the understanding of the incredible meaning of the miracle of the universe, of our Earth, of all life, especially human life which now embraces the entire globe.

Yehudin Menuhin wanted to write his views on the back of the table which follows the dream herewith, but alas he died prematurely.  Artists should be the longest living humans on Earth.  Dear God, why did you let one of the most genial sculptors ever, my friend Domenico Mazzone, die so young?  (Read "Domenico Mazzone, the Faith of a Great Artist" in my book Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness.)

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

-- Victor Hugo

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Monday, February 1, 2010

[GMW #1885] Planetics & Politician Replace Politics & Politician - Their Role Is Of Love For Humans And Love For Our Planet





Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 230 ~    25 February 1995

The word "politics" and "politician" (from the Greek "polis", the administration of the city) should be replaced by "planetics" and "planetician".  Even better, the role of politicians should be transformed into love for humans (philanthropists, from the Greek phil, love, and anthropos, man) and love for our planet (gaiaphilists, from Greek GAIA, the goddess Earth and phil, love).

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume III Chapter I - The Span Of Life
A survey of all the people over 100 years old in the United States (75,000 of them) revealed that they attributed their longevity to three virtues:

- optimism
- devotion to a cause
- acceptance of losses.
I possess all three.  They have carried me successfully through war and peace to the age of 78.


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"Learn everything you can,
anytime you can, from anyone you can
- there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."


- Sarah Caldwell

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