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Utopista Final Document | ||
| Author: MISTICA VC Writing: Senaida Jansen |
Publication date:
11/2003 |
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| Location: Cyberlibrary > Work Documents > ut-desnudo.html |
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It is therefore the teaching for the full exercise of democracy, thus the education is permanent, systematic and carried out in favor of the environment and together with it.
It is important to work with the ego's identity in these two areas. This implies understanding that every human being is a whole community of "egos" that interact in harmony and/or in contradiction34. The faults and virtues interact to define and empower the ego which will prevail, will exert power and therefore will be projected as an individual and as a group social being. As a result, the individual would become responsible for their acquired personality from an early age and they will understand that together with that adopted personality, the other personalities would coexist. These other personalities will not be subordinated to the main one but in tune with it, where the main personality recognizes its multiple faces, listens and negotiates with the others and realizes it has responsibilities as a part of a whole. "And talking about God, I have a feeling that monotheist societies tend to foster segregation more than polytheist ones. In my Utopia there are many gods and each one takes care of their own business, nobody tries to impose their beliefs, they all coexist and respect each other." (LGR) Regarding the home, it is necessary to bring back the old feminist vindication of democratizing power relationships among the family members: woman-man; father-mother; daughters-sons, etc. The first learning place of human beings is at home and it is also the most permanent and systematic one where we develop from our birth until we die. We were born and raised at home and then we leave to set up or share another home. Although we swap roles, the basis of the relationship at home will reflect the learned behavior. "Recreational and action technology packs (or programs) for everybody at home, according to their tastes; so men who do the housework and women who have a busy public life and feel guilty for leaving their families would stop being an exception... "The carrying out of gender-awareness programs in order to stimulate self-awareness. Providing the mothers with the information about how to deal with these problems. These programs will take into account the local cultures and the best way to manage the cultural differences between the sexes that have been established, with the aim of making both sexes sensitive to their own identity, logic and interests... "Other discrimination issues could be dealt in these programs (such as race; class; handicap; etc.). The program about gender would be the introduction to every form of discrimination" (SJ). The learning of how to deal with the whole starting from the individual ego as well as the learning of the democratization of relationships at home, prepares the subjects to recognize themselves and become responsible as a part of an immediate socio-cultural whole and their environment in general. That is why there is a need to assimilate the values that rule the social processes and to learn how to work in group with the aim of reinforcing the process of learning and the exercise of democracy. We are all different and we are part of a whole, of the universe (the clich� of unity). "... The American natives and even Eastern philosophies don't have this "fixation" of looking at the universe as something to control and transform as the western ego does; on the contrary, they are part of that universe... The metaphors mean magic and in magic EVERYTHING IS VALID; if our wings are clipped or we transmute into another species or if new wings grow... "The idea of individuality in this country (Venezuela) is vanishing in the air and the idea of believing in the whole has emerged. That's something wonderful although it could also be painful. If those wings disappeared... there would be millions of butterflies, little spiders, dragons, mosquitoes... and the like; some others feel that the others are like a piece of shit, trying to foster another feasible world... The good thing is that some have started to believe that it is possible to improve what already exists from the point of view of the whole and the participatory and that this doesn't depend on a unique theory or agent... (Irene, 5.28.03) "(...) The whole is winning: Better for you and for us. In my out-dated use of language we used to say "a rolling stone gathers no moss" and what is happening in Venezuela confirms it. How important this is in an individualist country... that hears of the "whole" concept and gets interested and uses it for its own good... What an incredible overview that proves that it is possible to swap from individualism to a collective sense of things! (Victor, 5.30.03). 7.1. Decentralization Decentralization and global control play an essential part for WSSs; everything is exposed and it can easily be seen regarding the social and appropriate use of the ITC for the effective exercise of democracy; therefore everybody exerts control and they are controlled as well. Every human being has the potential to act as a citizen and be engaged with his citizenship and as a result to become someone who shows the way, the course of society. The younger people would state what was said as: "a society in which information reaches you at the moment it is generated, without having to go through filters that prevent you from seeing pictures" -and no matter how utopian this may seem, the author states- "[this] will help us to get a real idea of the harm that developing countries suffer". The same student foresees that "if cellular phones still exist in the future and are not replaced by other devices, they will be more useful, they will be fitted with much more than a lifetime camera and will come to replace the PCs and fulfill their function (Mapa, Collaborators Synthesis). In this sense, the much boasted assertion that the decision-making in the exercise of democracy should be developed top-down is applicable because the ITCs provide relevant mechanisms so as to make the administration of the society fulfill the people's wishes, dreams, interests and expectations, giving answers to the masses' questions. "...the right to equity when there are differences, the multiplicity of the WSSs, real solidarity and not merely empty words" (SF) "I imagine a slow and sustained movement towards equity, a subtle and constant balance of the possibilities each person has. A country less cruel, less sadistic, less psychopathic. Inhabited by people identified with its personal history, because when the people are satisfied with their own history they can build not only a sound society but also the legitimacy of a government where people are defended, protected, represented and not attacked" (RG sharing Sandra Russo's dream35 ). [33] Chapter taken from Girasoles Synthesis.
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