how do we know what we are reallymaent to be? Do we feel that as human beigns we have ´purpose? Obviously this question has been asked a million times, so most likely, we do , hee hee. How about nations having a purpose? Do nations in and of themselves seem to develop and operate by some predisposed view of the world, including the way in which they seek to develop?
So it is fair to say that when a country says, one is developed or not, they are using their way of assesing development, such as why they exist...? Right?
So if the United States exists to create money, not to interact with the natives, just to produce and to create jobs and not really grow as an organic part of the continent they are on, but rather give some sort of freedoom to the movements of their old continent, being more democratic versus where they were sitll aristocratic, being more casual where they were more formal, that kind of freedom. That kidn of development.
However, the native people here have a different notion of freedom obviously mas one they are from here, and are not reacting to European values, so that is improtnat ot note. AS a idfference in raison détre. Here htey don´t have the issues with Europe,as a need to get rid fo certain things liek formality,. In fact, here the Americas is the essence of fre3eedo. Teh discovery of this continenet for Europeans walsiek WOW!!! liek wowzers...freedom!! Wow, so for the native poepel ehr eit is liek a hwile other world..!! :) spiritually, lifestyle, worldview...so mcuh of the culture preconquest of teh Aemricas is so fascinating and it correlates withthe freedomo one feels here. Teh lifestyle and sprituality go hand in hand with it.

transcending class toward a more universal class

here, we are not talkign about class as in and of itself. For class is just what it is. However, the sense of class belonging to a social class per se, or an educational level, and the sense of class as in a more human class, where all humans are seen as being able to have or potential bearers of class. I believe we re transcending toward this level, if not, we alre already there. with no consciouness of what that looks like on a map, mental or geographical.
I am always amazed how traveling makes you aware of context. I mean really. It brings to light how things are created, where things come from, how things flow more than anything between cultures, boundaries, and history. One thing you can also become aware of, is how people who are not traveling, which is many of the people in towns, are filled with notions of the world, even neighboring countires, but especially of systems, power sturctures, and overall flow of information and things in mythical ways. I mean, people can really be part of the problem not the solution, when it comes to bettering life, because mainly, these myths keep them in chains.
Just as Rousseau said, man is free but everywhere in chains. Also, Plato very clearly demonstrated how we can have knowedege , in many ways. some more enlightened than others. The Allegory of the CAve .....
I keep wanting to go back to Montesquieu as well. His way of talking about systems...and how we need to see things in their systems to truly understand them...That is fascinating! That is true. (this totally goes along with post-modernism, on the level of decontextualization, deconstruction, critical undetstanding, hermenutics,etc) And I intend to agree to that model in my discussions. I believe that sort of systematizing, not to be redundant, is utterly important at this time. It is critical in our quest toward a higher universalization, sort recognition of the universality of the human being, to be incredibly fair to the details. Otherwise ,we risk losing the game, the fun and drowing in some sort of banality or blase reality where where eveyrone is the same and dreary , .. hahaha
Hisotyr , thus becomes one of the key tools for such critical assesement of our placement , movement, interaction and future such aspects. Tej porer lisasins, balances etc...all become improtat. In the movementsw otwrd democr