Unconventional Thinking for a New Mindset to Solve Our Own Problems

Unconventional Thinking for a New Mindset
to Solve Our Own Problems

Nipawin - Tuesday, June 26, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

It is strange that as I refer to my way of thinking I realize that I have become an

"unconventional thinker." So, I am an unconventional thinker, and what is wrong

with it? Nothing! We should all be unconventional thinkers as we are all different.

But it is difficult to realize our right to be ourselves, while everybody else is looking

for fitting in our big social machinery.

As I began to read the book "When Corporations Rule the World⁽¹⁾" by David

Korten, I find confirmation that to be unconventional is just the right way to be, and

as Korten says, we shouldn't trade our lives for money. More and more as we try to

grasp the complexity of our social system and solve our problems for a better society,

we are more and more realizing that our solutions are centered on people and not on

money, not in pursuing power and not in winning at the expense of other people. We

need to be unconventional to be ourselves and therefore we need to change our mindsets

to be able to solve our own problems.

Yesterday's morning I read the article "War on crime denies justice⁽²⁾" and I found

out that our own justice system is at fault in carrying out miscarriages of justice⁽³⁾. The

police and the Crown face trials as a war to win over the defence lawyers and in doing

that they withhold vital information to the defence while at the same time they use

un-credible statements from bribed informants. Lawyer Clayton Ruby has justly

stated that

the trial is an exercise in producing a just result, not a victory, but a just result... You've got to change the mindset of what a criminal trial is about.

Yesterday afternoon I watched the movie "Traffic" with Michael Douglas, Catherine

Zeta Jones, and Benecio Del Toro. In this movie Michael Douglas plays the role of the

American drug czar fighting the drug war in Mexico while his own daughter is a drug

addict; Catherine Zeta Jones plays the role of Helen who chooses to continue the drug

trafficking business of her husband to save her husband from jail, and to save her family

from misery; Benecio Del Toro plays the role of a Mexican policeman dealing with his

dilemma to survive in the criminal drug circles. Again, the message of this movie is that

the American war on drugs cannot be won waging a war in any foreign country unless

we change our mindset and fight the same war at home.

We need to be unconventional and change our mindset to solve our problems, and

business must not be as usual as our problems are of our own making.

------------References/endnotes:

List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1.
-
WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD, by David C. Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm

2.
.
'War on crime' denies justice: top lawyer, Philip Lee, The Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 2001 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010624/5092926.html

3.
Injusticebusters http://www.injusticebusters.com/

Unconventional Thinking for a New Mindset to Solve Our Own Problems
Nipawin - Tuesday, June 26, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

		It is strange that as I refer to my way of thinking I realize that I have become an
		"unconventional thinker." So, I am an unconventional thinker, and what is wrong
		with it? Nothing! We should all be unconventional thinkers as we are all different.
		But it is difficult to realize our right to be ourselves, while everybody else is looking
		for fitting in our big social machinery.

		As I began to read the book "When Corporations Rule the World⁽¹⁾" by David
		Korten, I find confirmation that to be unconventional is just the right way to be, and
		as Korten says, we shouldn't trade our lives for money. More and more as we try to
		grasp the complexity of our social system and solve our problems for a better society,
		we are more and more realizing that our solutions are centered on people and not on
		money, not in pursuing power and not in winning at the expense of other people. We
		need to be unconventional to be ourselves and therefore we need to change our mindsets
		to be able to solve our own problems.

		Yesterday's morning I read the article "War on crime denies justice⁽²⁾" and I found
		out that our own justice system is at fault in carrying out miscarriages of justice⁽³⁾. The
		police and the Crown face trials as a war to win over the defence lawyers and in doing
		that they withhold vital information to the defence while at the same time they use
		un-credible statements from bribed informants. Lawyer Clayton Ruby has justly
		stated that
		the trial is an exercise in producing a just result, not a victory, but a just result... You've got to change the mindset of what a criminal trial is about.

		Yesterday afternoon I watched the movie "Traffic" with Michael Douglas, Catherine
		Zeta Jones, and Benecio Del Toro. In this movie Michael Douglas plays the role of the
		American drug czar fighting the drug war in Mexico while his own daughter is a drug
		addict; Catherine Zeta Jones plays the role of Helen who chooses to continue the drug
		trafficking business of her husband to save her husband from jail, and to save her family
		from misery; Benecio Del Toro plays the role of a Mexican policeman dealing with his
		dilemma to survive in the criminal drug circles. Again, the message of this movie is that
		the American war on drugs cannot be won waging a war in any foreign country unless
		we change our mindset and fight the same war at home.

		We need to be unconventional and change our mindset to solve our problems, and
		business must not be as usual as our problems are of our own making.

------------References/endnotes:

		List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1. -		WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD, by David C. Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm

2. .		'War on crime' denies justice: top lawyer, Philip Lee, The Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 2001 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010624/5092926.html

3.		Injusticebusters http://www.injusticebusters.com/