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What' your 'most dangerous question'?
The Edge, a kind of 'think tank' that promotes innovative thinking, has asked numerous 'thinkers' what their 'most dangerous question' might be. Their responses are here: http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_print.html
Here's my 'most dangerous question'..."What if we did the following..."?
We set aside a section of a U.S. national park for refugee Tibetans, some semi-mountainous area, maybe even close in climate type. Help whoever wants to come here to set up. Bring yer goats and prayer flags, guys. It would be a spiritual 'neutral zone', yet a section apart, self-governing, kind of like the Vatican. It would be for any Tibetan, religious or not, a place to be free from opression. Youth groups could volunteer their summers to help build homes, monasteries and temples, tend farms, etc., in exchange for food and shelter for the duration. The Tibetans could be park guides (sherpas?) and sell handmade goods like in Katmandu. Not the same thing as being in the Himalayas, but a hell of a lot freer and safer. They'd be self sustaining, kind of like the Amish, but would particpate in the local economy, too.
We might not want to know they were doing 'sky burials', tho. Well, maybe that could become a convention for us, too.
We'd piss off the mainland Chinese, but we could sell them the idea that they would be rid of those pesky Tibetans for good.
We might do this for other 'refugee' groups, too, with volunteers helping them either assimilate or farm as they were used to. I got it all figured out.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to breathe free." Now, where did I read that?
Here's my 'most dangerous question'..."What if we did the following..."?
We set aside a section of a U.S. national park for refugee Tibetans, some semi-mountainous area, maybe even close in climate type. Help whoever wants to come here to set up. Bring yer goats and prayer flags, guys. It would be a spiritual 'neutral zone', yet a section apart, self-governing, kind of like the Vatican. It would be for any Tibetan, religious or not, a place to be free from opression. Youth groups could volunteer their summers to help build homes, monasteries and temples, tend farms, etc., in exchange for food and shelter for the duration. The Tibetans could be park guides (sherpas?) and sell handmade goods like in Katmandu. Not the same thing as being in the Himalayas, but a hell of a lot freer and safer. They'd be self sustaining, kind of like the Amish, but would particpate in the local economy, too.
We might not want to know they were doing 'sky burials', tho. Well, maybe that could become a convention for us, too.
We'd piss off the mainland Chinese, but we could sell them the idea that they would be rid of those pesky Tibetans for good.
We might do this for other 'refugee' groups, too, with volunteers helping them either assimilate or farm as they were used to. I got it all figured out.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to breathe free." Now, where did I read that?
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