Activism

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March 2019

• Big Think argued that many people have "scarcity mindsets" because of their inability to pay their bills. US 2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, outspoken proponent of a basic income, argued that losing America's middle class puts the national brain trust at risk. In a scarcity mindset, functional bandwidth decreases, while the opposite of a mindset of scarcity is a mindset of abundance.

August 2018

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• What's Changing? - Charity

January 2019

• Chatham House research suggested that there is an expectation from a growing constituency of customers, shareholders and the general public for corporations to be actors for social good, by moving from traditional Corporate Social Responsibility to corporate activism. 

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Since the cave we have tried to make the old gods smile. Each year we fail and winter comes. #CLNolan

"Wings are for flying, not frying" ...nice quote, nice sentiment.  Animal-friendly consumerism could be a major future trend.  Until 12 years ago I too gorged myself on turkey every Christmas Day, Boxing Day, 27th...and my mouth watered long after at the remembered taste of turkey soup on the 28th or 29th, a meal which constituted one of the culinary highlights of my year.

This paper is an evolving examination of issues around, and responses to, the challenge or improving the lives of and caring for elders, on the emotional, mental, physical, practical, spiritual levels.

Pre 2018

I have listened to and would recommend the following podcasts (2015-2018 recommendations to follow):

2014

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Pre 2018

For me the purpose of life is to know other people…is to discover what life is. Who inhabits the world? What is it to be human? What can I give to the world which it doesn’t have…a gift for tolerating my presence in this world..…and unless I know the people, I can’t know what it does not have - Theodore Zeldin

Imagine balancing self-interest and caring for others. If this is possible, then:

(1) What is the approximate balance between the two today - in individuals, organisations and societies? How much time do we really spend thinking about and then acting on other people's needs?

On what changed this week #Activism #Ageing #Empathy #Happiness #Love #Now #Presence #Self #Time #V