Reflections on Politics, the Environment and Moreno

[Adam Blatner]

 Dear Ed and Grouptalk,
     Well, I need not agree with either you or the colleague who said,  This colleague 
said, "Don't I understand this listserve to be just about psychodrama?" ... "Bringing 
politics into this mixes up my beliefs with the method."  They
> said also that they worked with some republicans who might be offended by what I posted.

         I want to affirm the need for our grouptalk to be able to handle folks who can 
feel supported in strongly disagreeing with you... not just you, disagreeing with me, with 
anyone. That we have no norm of doctrine. Since you quoted Moreno, I am oriented to the 
general sensibility of dialogue and encounter. It is important that we care about our 
freedom to disagree and be supported for that, whether or not one agrees with the content 
of our opinions.

Ed, you certainly have not been guilty of suppressing anything, so there is no reproach to 
you at all. All you've done is say your piece. What is important in an internet field like 
this, though, is not to have the more passionate be given extra credence or weight because 
others are too timid to speak up and argue, or feel there's an unspoken group norm that 
agrees with the advocates of seemingly noble motives.
          You may be right, of course. But there is a fair argument to be made about how 
to more realistically bring about the movement towards social justice that you seem to 
advocate. So I'm just speaking up to say that I feel it's fine for your colleague to 
disagree on grouptalk.
        (I also find political discussions tiresome, personally, delete them, and feel 
mildly annoyed that folks are shifting the unspoken context of a professional forum into 
political contexts, and not really very carefully spelled-out and specific arguments, 
either. I'd rather see them posted on a website if I cared to go read them.)
          Warmly, Adam
>
> I've thought and thought about this.
> In fact, went to The Source, so to speak.
> I did some research in Who Shall Survive.
>
> Funny - Dr. Moreno was one hell of a radical.
> He challenged the conserves of the time.
> He brought the world into onto the stage and
> asked:  what shall we do?
>
> I follow those footsteps, by choice.
>
> It is hard to imagine doing anything else!
> We live at a time when the entire ecological,
> biosphere is in a state of major change, perhaps
> collapse.
>
> We live in a culture where we - as Americans -
> consumer 40% of the natural resources of the world,
> and are 5% of the world's population.
>
> Truly:  Who Shall Survive the collapse of the
> ecology?  And changing climate?
>
> Why deny the reality around us I ask myself every
> damn day.
>
> Why not work as hard as I can to bring Moreno's
> tools to society in a way yet unrealized?
>
> As hard, painful as it is to face the world, I must.
> I am sorry if my posts offend anyone - but I am not
> sorry for following those footsteps I feel Moreno
> would have asked of me.
>
> Ed Schreiber, TEP
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