Manfred Max-Neef on the difference between growth and development

Growth is a quantitative accumulation. Development is the liberation of creative possibilities. Every living system in nature grows up to a certain point and stops growing. You are not growing anymore, nor he nor me. But we continue developing ourselves. Otherwise we wouldn’t be dialoguing here now. So development has no limits. Growth has limits. [...]

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Another Wakeup Call – Manfred Max-Neef

Chin up people – poverty is less corrupted by greed. One positive to look forward to. Social networks and creativity prosper in poor communities. Dogma and greed in rich communities? Manfred foresees a quickening approach to an ultimate barrier to things as usual. Apparently some people in his orbit of friends and colleagues even see [...]

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Union music

Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine came together again to lend their music and inspiration to the workers’ battle for a more just world. This happened on the seventh day of the Truth Tour 2007, at the House of Blues, Chicago, IL.

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Inca Pachacutec saying as recorded by Father Blas Valera

He who envies happiness of others derives from it only evil, like the spider which, from a flower, derives poison – Inca Pachacutec

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Spontaneous foolishness that came out with a certain Zen gravitas

“You must follow the string to the spider, then you will know the web — love, your Sensei” – Paul de Morsella

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