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    No Missing Links And Other Essays
    No Missing Links And Other Essays
    No Missing Links And Other Essays
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    No Missing Links And Other Essays

    By Julie R Butler

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    5 essays celebrating complexity and the connective principle:
    “Gandhi Remix” reformulates Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins
    “Small Change” puts the health care reform into perspective
    “Too Many Notes” is a short essay on concision
    “Constructive Universalism” compares this Uruguayan art theory to Ayn Rand’s "objectivism"
    “No Missing Links” unveils the illusion of separation

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJulie R Butler
    Release dateOct 15, 2010
    ISBN9781452374192
    No Missing Links And Other Essays
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    Julie R Butler

    I am child of Colorful Colorado and a citizen of the world.I am always searching for truths that we can all live by, which celebrate diversity, respect individuality, and promote real democracy.I love to play with language, images, and ideas.I believe that knowledge does set us free, and that the manipulation of knowledge and fear is a large part of what has held humanity back from solving problems that are enormous, but not unsolvable through patient perseverance.I see the universe as infinitely interconnected and incomprehensibly complex, but not in and of itself incomprehensible.After spending several decades living a nomadic lifestyle while traveling the roads of North and Central America with my life partner followed by seven years living in South America (Uruguay and Argentina) and then returning to Central Mexico until his death in 2018, I have landed back in Colorado, where I currently split my time between Denver and the San Luis Valley.My essays and the occasional poem can be found at the following locations:The philosophy anthology, "What Do You Believe?" (edited by Derek Beres Brooklyn, NY: Outside the Box Publishing, 2009)."Connectively Speaking"(http://connectivelyspeaking.blogspot.com), my social issues blog [which, as a set of observations from more than a decade ago, is, I believe, pretty prescient.]"we fear what we don't understand" (http://julierbutler.blogspot.com), my older socio-political blog.

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      No Missing Links And Other Essays - Julie R Butler

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      No Missing Links

      And Other Essays

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      Published by Julie R Butler

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 by Julie R Butler

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      NO MISSING LINKS

      And Other Essays

      Gandhi Remix

      Small Change

      Too Many Notes

      Constructive Universalism

      No Missing Links

      Gandhi Remix

      11 December 2009

      I believe in a progressive philosophy of examining ideas from the past, processing them to find what about them is useful and what is not so useful in the present, and reworking them so that they can help us to move society forward - to progress. In this way, beautiful customs that have been passed on through time can be respected and continued, notions that may have been the products of ignorance or that have become obsolete can be discarded, and new customs and traditions can be woven from the most durable threads of tradition, being reinforced by the process.

      In keeping with this philosophy, here is my updated version of the list that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi laid out in 1925 in the journal, Young India. His list of social behaviors to avoid was, of course, the product of his place and time, which was Colonial India struggling for self-determination and social justice. Gandhi’s Indian revolution was truly innovative as a widespread social movement in its rejection of the use of violence, and his ideas, manifested by his actions, have been an inspiration to all who have advocated for social change through peaceful resistance – from figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Cesar Chavez, Lech Walesa, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, Howard Zinn, Wangari Maathai in Africa, Ramzi Kysia of the Free Gaza Movement, to artists and musicians such as John Lennon, Bob Marley, and many, many more, from around the globe, representing all walks of life.

      1.Power without Wisdom

      2.Pleasure without Awareness

      3.Science without Humanity

      4.Knowledge without Understanding

      5.Politics without Accountability

      6.Commerce without Conscience

      7.Spirituality without Connection

      Although Gandhi’s potent demonstration of the power of non-violent insistence upon change is timeless wisdom, this update of Gandhi's Seven Social Sins is necessary because his original list applied to a world that has changed significantly. In 1925, the idea of Communism was gaining ground, the European Empires were experiencing their final decline, oil dependency was on the rise, geopolitics were undergoing tectonic shifts, and Free Market Capitalism had yet to become the weapon of choice to be wielded by the United States in order to maintain its total dominance upon the world stage of today. In those years between the two World Wars, workers and poorer people of the world were demanding inclusion in the new kinds of governments that were replacing waning monarchies, while those who had benefited from the monarchical structures and their hierarchical social constructs sought to hold on to their power and wealth. This was only one chapter in the eternal class struggle that stretches throughout the story of human civilization, but at no other time in history was the notion that the lesser classes might become enfolded into the structures of governance more energized, as the dismantling of old regimes gave way to new opportunities.

      It was this wave of opportunity that opened the door to new ideas about how societies should structure themselves, and what pitfalls they should avoid, that Gandhi was boldly walking through when he presented his Seven Social Sins to the subcontinent of India and to the world. Here is his original list:

      1.Wealth without Work

      2.Pleasure without Conscience

      3.Science without Humanity

      4.Knowledge without Character

      5.Politics without Principle

      6.Commerce without Morality

      7.Worship without Sacrifice

      The differences between the update and the original reflect very different attitudes that have arisen with time. Gandhi’s version was just like his dress - simple, basic, unadorned. The list appeared, with no discussion whatsoever, for his followers to contemplate as they struggled to recreate an independent India. I have recycled Gandhi’s list, demonstrating my philosophy of examining, processing, progressing, and have adorned it with a few new ideas of my own. As the people of the world today

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