Misc. All those mirrors in TRP?

[Michael Bailey]

i
> although my inclination is to work at the cultural level in respect to
> propagating the memes I like, ahimsa being a personal favorite (in my
> Dad's imitable words, ABN - always be nice); at the market level by
> ethical shopping; at the biological level by seeking out life
> enhancement and trying to live in harmony; and to discover what I can
> know of the physical world...
>

example?  Smithfield Ham

locate (conceptually) the CEO who came up with the idea of an economic
structure that maximizes his wealth and creates huge aggregations of
pigshit - what stance to take with regard to that?  Huge steaming
lakes of pigshit - with knockout concentrations of toxic fumes that
make it dangerous to even go near them...what to do?

economically, buy from his competitors?
culturally, join or develop an ethos that makes it clear why this
isn't good, support alternatives, do factfinding, maybe even
communicate with the person?
biologically, avoid those pig farms and remain healthy?
physically?  not sure there's a separate path along the lines of
"physical law" to apply in action, but it does call to mind the idea
that "matter loves to flow"


or Tyson chicken:
economically, buy organic or be a vegetarian
culturally, study the question, propagate opinion, attractively
exemplify disapproval, discover and point out alternatives, even
communicate with the executives or other interested parties, civilly
exchange viewpoints, persevere, build alliances, be in it for the long
haul
biologically, avoid the factory farms, definitely stay healthy by not
going to work for a Tyson processing plant unless for research
purposes, develop therapeutic measures for contaminated food
physically - eenhyeh, not using this one much...


Land Mines
economically, don't buy land mines, or stock in land mine companies
(unless to work from within), find other ways for merchants of death
to accumulate wealth
culturally, mnftiu.cc and other places, support land mine removal,
persevere, sway people with well reasoned and well researched
arguments in civil tones
biologically, do not (please) step on land mines, help those who did...


Not a complete answer but in a few words it represents most of what I
have come to believe in...