tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post7806676167872815824..comments2024-03-18T16:29:17.369-07:00Comments on Inverted Alchemy: An Integral Economy: End of a GunDavid Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-18183201484535989412012-06-02T10:28:55.727-07:002012-06-02T10:28:55.727-07:00Kerry, this is a great context-setting piece and a...Kerry, this is a great context-setting piece and adds richly to the message that this event has catalyzed. Many thanks!David Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-44442703768004701342012-06-01T21:12:31.702-07:002012-06-01T21:12:31.702-07:00David,
I’m struck by a stark contrast, with some ...David,<br /><br />I’m struck by a stark contrast, with some surface irony; that Michael Somare, in his own clan tradition, is a Sana, a ‘peacemaker’ (who’s role is said to include having parties to battle feast together before fighting), and that Rio Tinto is about to don the garland of sponsorship for the Olympics (which began as the mutual engagement in sport among otherwise warring provinces). Both traditions held precedent for intentional alternatives to enmity, stays of respect inserted into the even longer traditions of often lethal opposition, creative interruptions of cyclic violences. Yet in the midst of the systemic violence of opaque complicities, and insular distancing from informed decency, you David, are enacting the very impetus of the ’Olympics’(before co-opted by nationalisms and opportunist advertisement) and stepping into the role of Sana (albeit, with an extra-traditional initiation: conscience). <br /><br />The sacred initiations of pre-colonial Sana, and the practicing of peace at the original Olympics, each involved a training distinct from preparations for conflict alone. Means and ends met in the participants who dropped sword and shield, in the case of Olympians, or were passed a spear transmuted in its usage, in the case of the Sana, thereby habituating to whatever degree some active alternative to the brutal juggernaut of exclusive triumph. <br /><br />One act cognizant of mutuality is greater than eons spent on insular interests, because every lifetime takes place in the fields of mutuality, the Commons, which doesn’t wait for acknowledgment before bestowing, abundantly, any necessity. To act on mutuality, whether a person, a community, or a corporation, is to support the continuation of the very systems which steward us. Returning that favor is my own greatest joy, and can be an even greater efficacy when applied to policy and practice at the collective levels.Kerry Duganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14846127021780093924noreply@blogger.com