Hi johnH,
1 Independance would weaken legislative and economical ties not strengthen.
The purpose is independence. We keep the hurtful NT's out and we can go into their world as we wish. Without independence, we're still subject to NT's.
2
rephrase??? I got lost in there.
3 do what Gandhi would do.
that's pretty difficult to do. Ghandi is noted as a passivist; he 'did' nothing ... and became very famous for it.
I've been doing 'nothing' for years, and nobody's noticed.
It really doesn't work that well; I don't know how he got away with it.
4 we have much bigger threats.
We deal with all threats by having the capability of complete independence.
5 We must be independant on foreign goods
Independent of, yes. But purchasing is still up to each individual. we just don't need those items or rely on them.
Instead, we design them and have our own company and have them manufactured and distributed, and we fund ourselves with the proceeds. Whatever NT's do, we can probably do better. I design everything. My new Samsung 3MP camera cellphone is archaic to me. It's as if designed by kindergarteners.
6 We must probably combine ideas to make a sustainable society.
Agreed. There would be room for many different projects and aspects of an AS society as well. The society serves us, unlike NT society, where they serve it.
7 We must have some culture,a country without a culture would have hardly a cause to exist[or even to have a cause for a name].
I disagree. You are talking about NT society; they have culture. We are free to do whatever we want. Our culture is all culture, anything we want. At that point it ceases being a culture. We are the culture. Pin that one.
8 Keep in mind that we do tend to focus on the details not on the full picture.
I agree.
I'll take up big-picture stuff and theories and inter-relational concepts. There's a lot of work being done on the details already, so I'll do what I do best.
We need 'big' picture' topics.