The Greatest Obstacle to Transformation is the Conventional Mind

[Uncle Joe]

There's a silent killer of dreams, something that stops transformation dead in its tracks -- or lures it onto some less threatening siding. This deadly possibility-slayer could be charged as a key accomplice in the murder (or let us hope, attempted murder) of our descendants should our current ecological, economic and political crises continue without intervention.

This deadly force is so familiar to most of us that it seems normal, and there is a good reason for this. It IS normal.

It's the conventional mind, the voice of reason, which serves to rationalize keeping an unworkable system in place. It even pervades the movement to change the unworkable system, in the form of the spoken or unspoken caveat: "Of course, we all understand that this change that we want is impossible."

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However... let's remember a key significant fact that the mainstream media is fervently seeking to distract us from. Some 80% of all Americans across the political spectrum, conservatives as well as progressives, believe that money has too much influence in politics. Approval of Congress and government is now in single digits, and nearly 80% of all Americans mistrust the power of "big business".

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But of course, Bernie can't win.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-bhaerman/the-greatest-obstacle-to-_b_8100804.html

There is much more on the link.

[snagglepuss]

1. to read later

[Uncle Joe]

2. It's well worth it when you have the time.

[Armstead]

3. Good article

IT would be nice if we could break the spell.

[Uncle Joe]

4. It's all about the mass of inertia and in the U.S. that mass is quite massive, so when the dam

breaks the energy let loose will be most extensive, the trillion dollar question is, to what cause will that energy be utilized?

Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, as proposed in his 1905 paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," was built on the understanding of inertia and inertial reference frames developed by Galileo and Newton. While this revolutionary theory did significantly change the meaning of many Newtonian concepts such as mass, energy, and distance, Einstein's concept of inertia remained unchanged from Newton's original meaning (in fact the entire theory was based on Newton's definition of inertia). However, this resulted in a limitation inherent in special relativity that the principle of relativity could only apply to reference frames that were inertial in nature (meaning when no acceleration was present). In an attempt to address this limitation, Einstein proceeded to develop his general theory of relativity ("The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity," 1916), which ultimately provided a unified theory for both inertial and noninertial (accelerated) reference frames. However, in order to accomplish this, in general relativity Einstein found it necessary to redefine several fundamental concepts (such as gravity) in terms of a new concept of "curvature" of space-time, instead of the more traditional system of forces understood by Newton.[20]

As a result of this redefinition, Einstein also redefined the concept of "inertia" in terms of geodesic deviation instead, with some subtle but significant additional implications. The result of this is that according to general relativity, when dealing with very large scales, the traditional Newtonian idea of "inertia" does not actually apply, and cannot necessarily be relied upon. Luckily, for sufficiently small regions of spacetime, the special theory can be used, in which inertia still means the same (and works the same) as in the classical model.[dubious – discuss]

Another profound conclusion of the theory of special relativity, perhaps the most well-known, was that energy and mass are not separate things, but are, in fact, interchangeable. This new relationship, however, also carried with it new implications for the concept of inertia. The logical conclusion of special relativity was that if mass exhibits the principle of inertia, then inertia must also apply to energy. This theory, and subsequent experiments confirming some of its conclusions, have also served to radically expand the definition of inertia in some contexts to apply to a much wider context including energy as well as matter.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[Uncle Joe]

6. WillyT!

[Zorra]

7. Couldn't agree more.

Important post, Uncle Joe, thanks.

We can will do it.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Thank you, Zorra and peace to you.

[LWolf]

9. K & R